Viral load of SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron BA.5 is lower than that of BA.2 despite the higher infectivity of BA.5

BACKGROUND: Sublineage BA.5 of the SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron variant rapidly spread and replaced BA.2 in July 2022 in Tokyo. A high viral load can be a possible cause of high transmissibility. METHODS AND RESULTS: The copy numbers of SARS‐CoV‐2 in nasopharyngeal swab samples obtained from all patients visi...

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Autores principales: Takatsuki, Yuna, Takahashi, Yuta, Nakajima, Jun, Iwasaki, Yumi, Nagano, Katsutoshi, Tani‐Sassa, Chihiro, Yuasa, Sonoka, Kanehira, Saki, Sonobe, Kazunari, Nukui, Yoko, Takeuchi, Hiroaki, Tanimoto, Kousuke, Tanaka, Yukie, Kimura, Akinori, Ichimura, Naoya, Tohda, Shuji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9933202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36840495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iid3.783

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