Viral Ribonucleic Acid Shedding and Transmission Potential of Asymptomatic and Paucisymptomatic Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients.

Arghadip SamaddarRavisekhar GadepalliVijaya Lakshmi NagSanjeev MisraPankaj BhardwajPankaj SinghMahadev MeenaPrem Prakash SharmaMalika GroverMahendra Kumar GargNishant Kumar ChauhanNaveen DuttRam NiwasDeepak KumarPraveen SharmaAkhil Dhanesh GoelManoj Kumar GuptaSuman SaurabhShubham RaiChunnilal LawdiyaJinesh SainiDeepak Singh

Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2020)

We studied the pattern and duration of viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) shedding in 32 asymptomatic and 11 paucisymptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 cases. Viral RNA shedding in exhaled breath progressively diminished and became negative after 6 days of a positive reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction test. Therefore, the duration of isolation can be minimized to 6 days.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
sars cov
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
human health