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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infectivity by Viral Load, S Gene Variants and Demographic Factors, and the Utility of Lateral Flow Devices to Prevent Transmission

2021; Oxford University Press; Volume: 74; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/cid/ciab421

ISSN

1537-6591

Autores

Lennard Y. W. Lee, Stefan Rozmanowski, Matthew Pang, André Charlett, Charlotte Anderson, G. Hughes, Matthew Barnard, Leon Peto, Richard Vipond, Alex Sienkiewicz, Susan Hopkins, John I. Bell, Derrick W. Crook, Nick Gent, A. Sarah Walker, Tim Peto, David W. Eyre,

Tópico(s)

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Resumo

How severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infectivity varies with viral load is incompletely understood. Whether rapid point-of-care antigen lateral flow devices (LFDs) detect most potential transmission sources despite imperfect clinical sensitivity is unknown.

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