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Editor, Senior Moderator
Open Forum Infect Dis
. 2020 Dec 8;8(1)
faa599.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa599. eCollection 2021 Jan.
Viral Ribonucleic Acid Shedding and Transmission Potential of Asymptomatic and Paucisymptomatic Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients
Arghadip Samaddar[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ravisekhar Gadepalli[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Vijaya Lakshmi Nag[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sanjeev Misra[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Pankaj Bhardwaj[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Pankaj Singh[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mahadev Meena[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Prem Prakash Sharma[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Malika Grover[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mahendra Kumar Garg[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Nishant Kumar Chauhan[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Naveen Dutt[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Ram Niwas[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Deepak Kumar[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Praveen Sharma[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Akhil Dhanesh Goel[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Manoj Kumar Gupta[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Suman Saurabh[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Shubham Rai[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Chunnilal Lawdiya[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Jinesh Saini[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Deepak Singh[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
We studied the pattern and duration of viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) shedding in 32 asymptomatic and 11 paucisymptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 cases. Viral RNA shedding in exhaled breath progressively diminished and became negative after 6 days of a positive reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction test. Therefore, the duration of isolation can be minimized to 6 days.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; asymptomatic; cycle threshold paucisymptomatic; viral shedding.
. 2020 Dec 8;8(1)
faa599.doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa599. eCollection 2021 Jan.
Viral Ribonucleic Acid Shedding and Transmission Potential of Asymptomatic and Paucisymptomatic Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients
Arghadip Samaddar[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ravisekhar Gadepalli[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Vijaya Lakshmi Nag[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sanjeev Misra[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Pankaj Bhardwaj[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Pankaj Singh[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mahadev Meena[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Prem Prakash Sharma[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Malika Grover[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mahendra Kumar Garg[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Nishant Kumar Chauhan[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Naveen Dutt[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Ram Niwas[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Deepak Kumar[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Praveen Sharma[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Akhil Dhanesh Goel[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Manoj Kumar Gupta[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Suman Saurabh[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Shubham Rai[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Chunnilal Lawdiya[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Jinesh Saini[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Deepak Singh[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33506066
- PMCID: PMC7798607
- DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa599
Abstract
We studied the pattern and duration of viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) shedding in 32 asymptomatic and 11 paucisymptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 cases. Viral RNA shedding in exhaled breath progressively diminished and became negative after 6 days of a positive reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction test. Therefore, the duration of isolation can be minimized to 6 days.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; asymptomatic; cycle threshold paucisymptomatic; viral shedding.