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Editor, Senior Moderator
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
. 2023 Sep 25;1-3.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2023.210. Online ahead of print. Low infectivity among asymptomatic patients with a positive severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) admission test at a tertiary care center, 2020-2022
Ralph Tayyar[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Melanie A Kiener[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jane W Liang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Gustavo Contreras[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Guillermo Rodriguez-Nava[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Alex N Zimmet[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Caitlin A Contag[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Krithika Srinivasan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Karen McIntyre[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Aruna Subramanian[SUP] 1 [/SUP], John Shepard[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Lucy S Tompkins[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Benjamin A Pinsky[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jorge L Salinas[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
We used a strand-specific RT-qPCR to evaluate viral replication as a surrogate for infectiousness among 242 asymptomatic inpatients with a positive severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) admission test. Only 21 patients (9%) had detectable SARS-CoV-2 minus-strand RNA. Because most patients were found to be noninfectious, our findings support the suspension of asymptomatic admission testing.
. 2023 Sep 25;1-3.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2023.210. Online ahead of print. Low infectivity among asymptomatic patients with a positive severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) admission test at a tertiary care center, 2020-2022
Ralph Tayyar[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Melanie A Kiener[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jane W Liang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Gustavo Contreras[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Guillermo Rodriguez-Nava[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Alex N Zimmet[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Caitlin A Contag[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Krithika Srinivasan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Karen McIntyre[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Aruna Subramanian[SUP] 1 [/SUP], John Shepard[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Lucy S Tompkins[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Benjamin A Pinsky[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jorge L Salinas[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 37746805
- DOI: 10.1017/ice.2023.210
We used a strand-specific RT-qPCR to evaluate viral replication as a surrogate for infectiousness among 242 asymptomatic inpatients with a positive severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) admission test. Only 21 patients (9%) had detectable SARS-CoV-2 minus-strand RNA. Because most patients were found to be noninfectious, our findings support the suspension of asymptomatic admission testing.