Missouriwatcher
Editor, Senior Moderator
Volume 27, Number 2—February 2021
Research Letter
Antonella Amendola[SUP]1[/SUP], Silvia Bianchi[SUP]1[/SUP], Maria Gori, Daniela Colzani, Marta Canuti, Elisa Borghi, Mario C. Raviglione, Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti, and Elisabetta Tanzi
...As participants in Italy’s Measles and Rubella Network, a sensitive case-based surveillance system, we observed in Milan during late autumn 2019 cases of suspected measles in patients who eventually tested negative for measles. We therefore retrospectively explored a possible etiologic involvement of SARS-CoV-2 in these non–measles-linked rash cases...
One oropharyngeal swab specimen tested positive. ..
This finding is of epidemiologic importance because it expands our knowledge on timing and mapping of the SARS-CoV-2 transmission pathways. Long-term, unrecognized spread of SARS-CoV-2 in northern Italy would help explain, at least in part, the devastating impact and rapid course of the first wave of COVID-19 in Lombardy...
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/2/20-4632_article
Research Letter
Antonella Amendola[SUP]1[/SUP], Silvia Bianchi[SUP]1[/SUP], Maria Gori, Daniela Colzani, Marta Canuti, Elisa Borghi, Mario C. Raviglione, Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti, and Elisabetta Tanzi
...As participants in Italy’s Measles and Rubella Network, a sensitive case-based surveillance system, we observed in Milan during late autumn 2019 cases of suspected measles in patients who eventually tested negative for measles. We therefore retrospectively explored a possible etiologic involvement of SARS-CoV-2 in these non–measles-linked rash cases...
One oropharyngeal swab specimen tested positive. ..
This finding is of epidemiologic importance because it expands our knowledge on timing and mapping of the SARS-CoV-2 transmission pathways. Long-term, unrecognized spread of SARS-CoV-2 in northern Italy would help explain, at least in part, the devastating impact and rapid course of the first wave of COVID-19 in Lombardy...
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/2/20-4632_article