Open AccessCoronavirus Disease 2019 Patients in Earlier Stages Exhaled Millions of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Per Hour
Author(s) -
Jianxin Ma,
Qi Xiao,
Haoxuan Chen,
Xinyue Li,
Zheng Zhang,
Haibin Wang,
Lingli Sun,
Lu Zhang,
Jiazhen Guo,
Lídia Morawska,
Sergey A. Grinshpun,
Pratim Biswas,
Richard C. Flagan,
Maosheng Yao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciaa1283
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , coronavirus , respiratory system , respiratory disease , betacoronavirus , pneumonia , virology , immunology , disease , lung , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients exhaled millions of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA copies per hour, which plays an important role in COVID-19 transmission. Exhaled breath had a higher positive rate (26.9%, n = 52) than surface (5.4%, n = 242) and air (3.8%, n = 26) samples.
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