The relative transmissibility of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections among close contacts

Asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019 is an important topic. A recent study in China showed that transmissibility of the asymptomatic cases is comparable to that of symptomatic cases. Here, we discuss that the conclusion may depend on how we interpret the data. To the best of our...

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Autores principales: He, Daihai, Zhao, Shi, Lin, Qianying, Zhuang, Zian, Cao, Peihua, Wang, Maggie H., Yang, Lin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7166025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32315808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.04.034
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description Asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019 is an important topic. A recent study in China showed that transmissibility of the asymptomatic cases is comparable to that of symptomatic cases. Here, we discuss that the conclusion may depend on how we interpret the data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time the relative transmissibility of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections is quantified.
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spelling pubmed-71660252020-04-20 The relative transmissibility of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections among close contacts He, Daihai Zhao, Shi Lin, Qianying Zhuang, Zian Cao, Peihua Wang, Maggie H. Yang, Lin Int J Infect Dis Article Asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019 is an important topic. A recent study in China showed that transmissibility of the asymptomatic cases is comparable to that of symptomatic cases. Here, we discuss that the conclusion may depend on how we interpret the data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time the relative transmissibility of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections is quantified. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020-05 2020-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7166025/ /pubmed/32315808 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.04.034 Text en © 2020 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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He, Daihai
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Cao, Peihua
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The relative transmissibility of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections among close contacts
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title_short The relative transmissibility of asymptomatic COVID-19 infections among close contacts
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32315808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.04.034
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