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. 2022 Jun;84(6):e126-e128.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2022.02.015. Epub 2022 Feb 17.

High amounts of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols exhaled by patients with Omicron variant infection

Jing Zheng  1 , Zhongyi Wang  2 , Jiaming Li  3 , Yidun Zhang  1 , Lina Jiang  1 , Yingying Fu  3 , Yifei Jin  3 , Hongliang Cheng  3 , Jingjing Li  3 , Zehui Chen  1 , Fei Tang  1 , Bing Lu  4 , Li Li  5 , Xiaopeng Zhang  6
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High amounts of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols exhaled by patients with Omicron variant infection

Jing Zheng et al. J Infect. 2022 Jun.
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The viral aerosols exhaled by Omicron variant patients after the onset of COVID-19 symptom. (A) Ct values of throat swabs at admission. Statistical significance between two groups was calculated by unpaired Student's t-test. Comparisons among more than two groups were analysed by one-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett's multiple comparison. Values are expressed as the mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM). NS: no significant difference; (B) Proportion of positive or negative EBCs in total groups (1–19 days), early stage (1–5 days), middle stage (6–10 days) and late stage (11–19 days); (C) Breath emission rate (copies/hour) and Ct value of exhaled breath condensate. (D) Omicron variant patients exhaled high amounts of SARS-CoV-2 from early stage to late stage after the onset of COVID-19 symptom.
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