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- Title
Viral Ribonucleic Acid Shedding and Transmission Potential of Asymptomatic and Paucisymptomatic Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients.
- Authors
Samaddar, Arghadip; Gadepalli, Ravisekhar; Nag, Vijaya Lakshmi; Misra, Sanjeev; Bhardwaj, Pankaj; Singh, Pankaj; Meena, Mahadev; Sharma, Prem Prakash; Grover, Malika; Garg, Mahendra Kumar; Chauhan, Nishant Kumar; Dutt, Naveen; Niwas, Ram; Kumar, Deepak; Sharma, Praveen; Goel, Akhil Dhanesh; Gupta, Manoj Kumar; Saurabh, Suman; Rai, Shubham; Lawdiya, Chunnilal
- 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.
- Subjects
COVID-19; RNA; VIRAL shedding; POLYMERASE chain reaction
- Publication
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2021, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2328-8957
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ofid/ofaa599