Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in returning travelers from Wuhan, China

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 382, Issue 13, 2020, Pages 1278-1280

  Hoehl, Sebastian ^a   Rabenau, Holger ^a   Berger, Annemarie ^a   Kortenbusch, Marhild ^a   Cinatl, Jindrich ^a   Bojkova, Denisa ^a   Behrens, Pia ^b   Böddinghaus, Boris ^b   Götsch, Udo ^b   Naujoks, Frank ^b   Neumann, Peter ^b   Schork, Joscha ^b   Tiarks Jungk, Petra ^b   Walczok, Antoni ^b   Eickmann, Markus ^c   Vehreschild, Maria J G T ^a   Kann, Gerrit ^a   Wolf, Timo ^a   Gottschalk, René ^b   Ciesek, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Health Protection Authority   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CHILD; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFANT; ISOLATION; LETTER; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARANTINE; RASH; REAL TIME REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARS-RELATED CORONAVIRUS; SCREENING; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BETACORONAVIRUS; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PANDEMIC; PHARYNX; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRAVEL; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHILD; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; GERMANY; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRAVEL;

EID: 85082382403     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2001899     Document Type: Letter

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