Reply to: Asymptomatic infection by SARS 2 coronavirus: invisible but invincible

The current literature gives indications of the median duration of virus shedding of 11.5 days for pre-symptomatic, 28 days for asymptomatic and 31 days for mildly symptomatic patients (Li et al. 2020). Another study using the similar gene target ORF1ab as described by Malagón-Rojas et al. shows that median Ct values during hospitalization were significantly higher in asymptomatic patients (39.0, IQR 37.5- 39.5) than in asymptomatic patients during the incubation period (34.5, IQR 32.2- 37.0), indicating a significantly lower viral load (Zhou et al. 2020). Long-term virus shedding was documented rather in asymptomatic than in symptomatic patients and virus shedding did not correspond to viral infectivity (Long et al. 2020)

• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
• Repositorio: Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/14663
• Acceso en línea: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.10.034; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/14663
• Palabra clave: Asymptomatic; Presymptomatic; Case definition; COVID-19; ARS-CoV2; Síndrome respiratorio agudo grave; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Coronavirus
• License: Abierto (Texto Completo)