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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2021-06-01
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Series: | mSphere |
Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00019-21 |