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Characteristics of viral specimens collected from asymptomatic and fatal cases of COVID-19
We sought to determine the characteristics of viral specimens associated with fatal cases, asymptomatic cases and non-fatal symptomatic cases of COVID-19. This included the analysis of 1264 specimens found reactive for at least two SARS-CoV-2 specific loci from people screened for infection in North...
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Editorial Department of Journal of Biomedical Research
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7718074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33243941 http://dx.doi.org/10.7555/JBR.34.20200110 |
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author | Gorzalski, Andrew J. Hartley, Paul Laverdure, Chris Kerwin, Heather Tillett, Richard Verma, Subhash Rossetto, Cyprian Morzunov, Sergey Van Hooser, Stephanie Pandori, Mark W. |
author_facet | Gorzalski, Andrew J. Hartley, Paul Laverdure, Chris Kerwin, Heather Tillett, Richard Verma, Subhash Rossetto, Cyprian Morzunov, Sergey Van Hooser, Stephanie Pandori, Mark W. |
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description | We sought to determine the characteristics of viral specimens associated with fatal cases, asymptomatic cases and non-fatal symptomatic cases of COVID-19. This included the analysis of 1264 specimens found reactive for at least two SARS-CoV-2 specific loci from people screened for infection in Northern Nevada in March-May of 2020. Of these, 30 were specimens from fatal cases, while 23 were from positive, asymptomatic cases. We assessed the relative amounts of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from sample swabs by real-time PCR and use of the threshold crossing value (Ct). Moreover, we compared the amount of human RNase P found on the same swabs. A considerably higher viral load was found to be associated with swabs from cases involving fatality and the difference was found to be strongly statistically significant. Noting this difference, we sought to assess whether any genetic correlation could be found in association with virus from fatal cases using whole genome sequencing. While no common genetic elements were discerned, one branch of epidemiologically linked fatal cases did have two point mutations, which no other of 156 sequenced cases from northern Nevada had. The mutations caused amino acid changes in the 3′-5′ exonuclease protein, and the product of the gene, orf8. |
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spelling | pubmed-77180742020-12-30 Characteristics of viral specimens collected from asymptomatic and fatal cases of COVID-19 Gorzalski, Andrew J. Hartley, Paul Laverdure, Chris Kerwin, Heather Tillett, Richard Verma, Subhash Rossetto, Cyprian Morzunov, Sergey Van Hooser, Stephanie Pandori, Mark W. J Biomed Res Original Article We sought to determine the characteristics of viral specimens associated with fatal cases, asymptomatic cases and non-fatal symptomatic cases of COVID-19. This included the analysis of 1264 specimens found reactive for at least two SARS-CoV-2 specific loci from people screened for infection in Northern Nevada in March-May of 2020. Of these, 30 were specimens from fatal cases, while 23 were from positive, asymptomatic cases. We assessed the relative amounts of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from sample swabs by real-time PCR and use of the threshold crossing value (Ct). Moreover, we compared the amount of human RNase P found on the same swabs. A considerably higher viral load was found to be associated with swabs from cases involving fatality and the difference was found to be strongly statistically significant. Noting this difference, we sought to assess whether any genetic correlation could be found in association with virus from fatal cases using whole genome sequencing. While no common genetic elements were discerned, one branch of epidemiologically linked fatal cases did have two point mutations, which no other of 156 sequenced cases from northern Nevada had. The mutations caused amino acid changes in the 3′-5′ exonuclease protein, and the product of the gene, orf8. Editorial Department of Journal of Biomedical Research 2020-11 2020-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7718074/ /pubmed/33243941 http://dx.doi.org/10.7555/JBR.34.20200110 Text en Copyright and License information: Journal of Biomedical Research, CAS Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Original Article Gorzalski, Andrew J. Hartley, Paul Laverdure, Chris Kerwin, Heather Tillett, Richard Verma, Subhash Rossetto, Cyprian Morzunov, Sergey Van Hooser, Stephanie Pandori, Mark W. Characteristics of viral specimens collected from asymptomatic and fatal cases of COVID-19 |
title | Characteristics of viral specimens collected from asymptomatic and fatal cases of COVID-19 |
title_full | Characteristics of viral specimens collected from asymptomatic and fatal cases of COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Characteristics of viral specimens collected from asymptomatic and fatal cases of COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Characteristics of viral specimens collected from asymptomatic and fatal cases of COVID-19 |
title_short | Characteristics of viral specimens collected from asymptomatic and fatal cases of COVID-19 |
title_sort | characteristics of viral specimens collected from asymptomatic and fatal cases of covid-19 |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7718074/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33243941 http://dx.doi.org/10.7555/JBR.34.20200110 |
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