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SUBMITTER: Samaddar A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7798607 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Samaddar Arghadip A Gadepalli Ravisekhar R Nag Vijaya Lakshmi VL Misra Sanjeev S Bhardwaj Pankaj P Singh Pankaj P Meena Mahadev M Sharma Prem Prakash PP Grover Malika M Kumar Garg Mahendra M Chauhan Nishant Kumar NK Dutt Naveen N Niwas Ram R Kumar Deepak D Sharma Praveen P Goel Akhil Dhanesh AD Kumar Gupta Manoj M Saurabh Suman S Rai Shubham S Lawdiya Chunnilal C Saini Jinesh J Singh Deepak D
Open forum infectious diseases 20201208 1
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. ...[more]