What is the burden of asymptomatic coronavirus infections?

Editorial

. 2023 Mar:52:101101.

doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101101. Epub 2023 Feb 15.

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq^{1

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3}, Ziad A Memish^{4

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6}, Kauthar J Altawfi⁶, Qiuwei Pan⁷, Patricia Schlagenhauf⁸

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁶ Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁸ WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, MilMedBiol Competence Centre, University of Zürich, Switzerland.

Editorial

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq et al. New Microbes New Infect. 2023 Mar.

. 2023 Mar:52:101101.

doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101101. Epub 2023 Feb 15.

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq^{1

2

3}, Ziad A Memish^{4

5

6}, Kauthar J Altawfi⁶, Qiuwei Pan⁷, Patricia Schlagenhauf⁸

¹ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁶ Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁸ WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, MilMedBiol Competence Centre, University of Zürich, Switzerland.

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