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SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic and symptomatic patients and risk for transfusion transmission (preprint)
medrxiv; 2020.
Preprint
in English
| medRxiv | ID: ppzbmed-10.1101.2020.03.29.20039529
ABSTRACT
Oral swabs, sputum and blood samples from 18 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection were examined using real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing. Whereas oral swabs or sputum from the lower respiratory tract were tested RT-PCR positive in all patients, RNAemia was neither detected in 3 patients without symptoms nor in 14 patients with flu-like symptoms, fever or pneumonia. The only patient with RNAemia suffered from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and was artificially ventilated in an intensive care unit. Risk for SARS-CoV-2 transmission through blood components in asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals therefore seems negligible but further studies are needed.
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Preprints
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medRxiv
Main subject:
Pneumonia
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Respiratory Distress Syndrome
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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Fever
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COVID-19
Language:
English
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Preprint
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