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Comment
. 2020 Dec:101:391-392.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.10.035. Epub 2020 Oct 16.

Letter to the editor on "Asymptomatic infection by SARS 2 coronavirus: Invisible but invincible" by Nikolai et al. 2020

Jeadran Malagón-Rojas  1 , Eliana Parra  2 , Marcela Mercado  2
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Letter to the editor on "Asymptomatic infection by SARS 2 coronavirus: Invisible but invincible" by Nikolai et al. 2020

Jeadran Malagón-Rojas et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Dec.
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Box plot of CT among positive workers of the Cohort SPIN, 2020. We followed a cohort of 202 airport workers from the 1st of June to 31st of August 2020. We carried out nasopharyngeal swaps every 21 days to the cohort. Workers who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 were followed up at home on the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th day after the first sample was taken. To date, the incidence of the infection is 7.9%. 79% of the cases (n = 13) were asymptomatic and 21% (n = 3) were mild COVID-19 cases. The median value of the initial CT in the asymptomatic group was 33.43 (I.Q.R. 28–36.63); the CT in the symptomatic group was 34.13 (I.Q.R.33.43–36.87). The difference in CT between the groups of patients was not significant (Chi2 = 215; p = 0.72).
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