Asymptomatic infection and atypical manifestations of COVID-19: Comparison of viral shedding duration

• More than 25% of patients with COVID-19 were asymptomatic. • Among patients with COVID-19, 26.1% presented anosmia, and 22.6% complained of ageusia with median duration of 7 days. • Mean duration of SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding was 24.5 days. • Irrespective of clinical manifestations, all patients wi...

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Autores principales: Noh, Ji Yun, Yoon, Jin Gu, Seong, Hye, Choi, Won Suk, Sohn, Jang Wook, Cheong, Hee Jin, Kim, Woo Joo, Song, Joon Young
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Infection Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7240269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32445728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.035
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Yoon, Jin Gu
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description • More than 25% of patients with COVID-19 were asymptomatic. • Among patients with COVID-19, 26.1% presented anosmia, and 22.6% complained of ageusia with median duration of 7 days. • Mean duration of SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding was 24.5 days. • Irrespective of clinical manifestations, all patients with COVID-19 showed prolonged viral shedding.
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spelling pubmed-72402692020-05-21 Asymptomatic infection and atypical manifestations of COVID-19: Comparison of viral shedding duration Noh, Ji Yun Yoon, Jin Gu Seong, Hye Choi, Won Suk Sohn, Jang Wook Cheong, Hee Jin Kim, Woo Joo Song, Joon Young J Infect Letters to the Editor • More than 25% of patients with COVID-19 were asymptomatic. • Among patients with COVID-19, 26.1% presented anosmia, and 22.6% complained of ageusia with median duration of 7 days. • Mean duration of SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding was 24.5 days. • Irrespective of clinical manifestations, all patients with COVID-19 showed prolonged viral shedding. The British Infection Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7240269/ /pubmed/32445728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.035 Text en © 2020 The British Infection Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 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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Noh, Ji Yun
Yoon, Jin Gu
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Choi, Won Suk
Sohn, Jang Wook
Cheong, Hee Jin
Kim, Woo Joo
Song, Joon Young
Asymptomatic infection and atypical manifestations of COVID-19: Comparison of viral shedding duration
title Asymptomatic infection and atypical manifestations of COVID-19: Comparison of viral shedding duration
title_full Asymptomatic infection and atypical manifestations of COVID-19: Comparison of viral shedding duration
title_fullStr Asymptomatic infection and atypical manifestations of COVID-19: Comparison of viral shedding duration
title_full_unstemmed Asymptomatic infection and atypical manifestations of COVID-19: Comparison of viral shedding duration
title_short Asymptomatic infection and atypical manifestations of COVID-19: Comparison of viral shedding duration
title_sort asymptomatic infection and atypical manifestations of covid-19: comparison of viral shedding duration
topic Letters to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7240269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32445728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.035
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