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Assessing the clinical severity of the Omicron variant in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, using the diagnostic PCR proxy marker of RdRp target delay to distinguish between Omicron and Delta infections – a survival analysis

BACKGROUND: At present, it is unclear whether the extent of reduced risk of severe disease seen with SARS-Cov-2 Omicron variant infection is caused by a decrease in variant virulence or by higher levels of population immunity. METHODS: RdRp target delay (RTD) in the Seegene Allplex(TM) 2019-nCoV PCR...

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Autores principales: Hussey, Hannah, Davies, Mary-Ann, Heekes, Alexa, Williamson, Carolyn, Valley-Omar, Ziyaad, Hardie, Diana, Korsman, Stephen, Doolabh, Deelan, Preiser, Wolfgang, Maponga, Tongai, Iranzadeh, Arash, Wasserman, Sean, Boloko, Linda, Symons, Greg, Raubenheimer, Peter, Parker, Arifa, Schrueder, Neshaad, Solomon, Wesley, Rousseau, Petro, Wolter, Nicole, Jassat, Waasila, Cohen, Cheryl, Lessells, Richard, Wilkinson, Robert J, Boulle, Andrew, Hsiao, Nei-yuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8882068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35235826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2022.02.051