Absence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in tissue samples of COVID-19-related cutaneous lesions analyzed by real-time RT-PCR.

Despite the increasing knowledge of COVID-19-related skin lesions, few studies have attempted to demonstrate the presence of the virus in skin lesions by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).1,2 The objective of this research was to determine through RT-PCR whether SARS-CoV-2 was present in skin biopsies of patients with cutaneous manifestations related to COVID-19.