High Asymptomatic Carriage With the Omicron Variant in South Africa.
cross_sectional · Level IV
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 35353885.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/cid/ciac237 and PMC identifier 9383623.
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Abstract
We report a 23% asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2) Omicron carriage rate in participants being enrolled into a clinical trial in South Africa, 15-fold higher than in trials before Omicron. We also found lower CD4 + T-cell counts in persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) strongly correlated with increased odds of being SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive.
Medical subject headings
- COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2