1. Association of Culturable-Virus Detection and Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2, California and Tennessee, 2020-2022.
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Deyoe, Jessica E, Kelly, J Daniel, Grijalva, Carlos G, Bonenfant, Gaston, Lu, Scott, Anglin, Khamal, Garcia-Knight, Miguel, Pineda-Ramirez, Jesus, Hagen, Melissa Briggs, Saydah, Sharon, Abedi, Glen R, Goldberg, Sarah A, Tassetto, Michel, Zhang, Amethyst, Donohue, Kevin C, Davidson, Michelle C, Sanchez, Ruth Diaz, Djomaleu, Manuella, Mathur, Sujata, Shak, Joshua R, Deeks, Steven G, Peluso, Michael J, Chiu, Charles Y, Zhu, Yuwei, Halasa, Natasha B, Chappell, James D, Mellis, Alexandra, Reed, Carrie, Andino, Raul, Martin, Jeffrey N, Zhou, Bin, Talbot, H Keipp, Midgley, Claire M, and Rolfes, Melissa A
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Medical Microbiology ,Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Lung ,Emerging Infectious Diseases ,Biodefense ,Prevention ,Vaccine Related ,Infectious Diseases ,Infection ,Humans ,SARS-CoV-2 ,COVID-19 ,Tennessee ,Family Characteristics ,California ,household transmission ,secondary infection risk ,viral culture ,Biological Sciences ,Medical and Health Sciences ,Microbiology ,Biological sciences ,Biomedical and clinical sciences ,Health sciences - Abstract
From 2 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) household transmission studies (enrolling April 2020 to January 2022) with rapid enrollment and specimen collection for 14 days, 61% (43/70) of primary cases had culturable virus detected ≥6 days post-onset. Risk of secondary infection among household contacts tended to be greater when primary cases had culturable virus detected after onset. Regardless of duration of culturable virus, most secondary infections (70%, 28/40) had serial intervals
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- 2023