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COVID-19 patients in earlier stages exhaled millions of SARS-CoV-2 per hour
Jianxin Ma, Xiao Qi, Haoxuan Chen, Xinyue Li, Zheng Zhang, Haibin Wang, Lingli Sun, Lu Zhang, Jiazhen Guo, Lidia Morawska ... Show more
Author Notes
Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa1283, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1283
Published:
28 August 2020
Abstract
Exhaled breath samples had the highest positive rate (26.9%, n=52), followed by surface swabs (5.4%, n=242), and air samples (3.8%, n=26). COVID-19 patients recruited in Beijing exhaled millions of SARS-CoV-2 RNA copies into the air per hour. Exhaled breath emission may play an important role in the COVID-19 transmission.
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance...aa1283/5898624
Jianxin Ma, Xiao Qi, Haoxuan Chen, Xinyue Li, Zheng Zhang, Haibin Wang, Lingli Sun, Lu Zhang, Jiazhen Guo, Lidia Morawska ... Show more
Author Notes
Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa1283, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1283
Published:
28 August 2020
Abstract
Exhaled breath samples had the highest positive rate (26.9%, n=52), followed by surface swabs (5.4%, n=242), and air samples (3.8%, n=26). COVID-19 patients recruited in Beijing exhaled millions of SARS-CoV-2 RNA copies into the air per hour. Exhaled breath emission may play an important role in the COVID-19 transmission.
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance...aa1283/5898624