Shedding of Viable Virus in Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Carriers

A growing number of studies suggest the potential role of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers as a major driver of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, virological assessment of asymptomatic infection has largely been limited to reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR), which can be persistently positi...

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Main Authors: Takayuki Murata, Aki Sakurai, Masahiro Suzuki, Satoshi Komoto, Tomihiko Ide, Takuma Ishihara, Yohei Doi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-06-01
Series:mSphere
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00019-21