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. 2020 Oct;81(4):647-679.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.06.066. Epub 2020 Jun 29.

Investigation of a family outbreak of COVID-19 using systematic rapid diagnostic tests raises new questions about transmission

Thierry Prazuck  1 , Susanna Giaché  1 , Camelia Gubavu  1 , Mathilda Colin  1 , Vincent Rzepecki  1 , Aymeric Sève  1 , Gilles Pialoux  2 , Laurent Hocqueloux  3
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Investigation of a family outbreak of COVID-19 using systematic rapid diagnostic tests raises new questions about transmission

Thierry Prazuck et al. J Infect. 2020 Oct.
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Keywords: Children; Couples; Covid-19; Family cluster; Rapid diagnostic test; Sars-cov-2; Transmission.

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Population's distribution in each house, kinship, confirmed COVID-19 cases and temporal occurrence of each case. Legend: square = male; circle = female; horizontal bar = couples; vertical bar = parentage; black = confirmed COVID-19 case; white = excluded case; hatched grey = symptoms finally not related to COVID-19; vertical arrows = timelines of symptoms’ onset in COVID-19 symptomatic residents. Abbreviation: yo = year-old.
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