Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections and transmission in a skilled nursing facility

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 382, Issue 22, 2020, Pages 2081-2090

  Arons, M M ^a   Hatfield, K M ^a   Reddy, S C ^a   Kimball, A ^a   James, A ^a   Jacobs, J R ^a   Taylor, J ^a   Spicer, K ^a   Bardossy, A C ^a   Oakley, L P ^a   Tanwar, S ^a   Dyal, J W ^a   Harney, J ^a   Chisty, Z ^a   Bell, M ^a   Methner, M ^a   Paul, P ^a   Carlson, C M ^a   McLaughlin, H P ^a   Thornburg, N ^a   Tong, S ^a   Tamin, A ^a   Tao, Y ^a   Uehara, A ^a   Harcourt, J ^a   Clark, S ^b   Brostrom Smith, C ^b   Page, L C ^b   Kay, M ^b   Lewis, J ^b   Montgomery, P ^e   Stone, N D ^a   Clark, T A ^a   Honein, M A ^a   Duchin, J S ^b,c,d   Jernigan, J A ^a   more..

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Public Health of Seattle and King County   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Washington State Public Health Laboratory   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY RATE; NASOPHARYNX; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NURSING CARE; OROPHARYNX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESIDENT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIABILITY; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BETACORONAVIRUS; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PANDEMIC; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; WASHINGTON;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; BETACORONAVIRUS; COMORBIDITY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; COUGH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; VIRAL LOAD; WASHINGTON;

EID: 85084731058     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2008457     Document Type: Article

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