1. Association of Culturable-Virus Detection and Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2, California and Tennessee, 2020–2022
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Jessica E Deyoe, J Daniel Kelly, Carlos G Grijalva, Gaston Bonenfant, Scott Lu, Khamal Anglin, Miguel Garcia-Knight, Jesus Pineda-Ramirez, Melissa Briggs Hagen, Sharon Saydah, Glen R Abedi, Sarah A Goldberg, Michel Tassetto, Amethyst Zhang, Kevin C Donohue, Michelle C Davidson, Ruth Diaz Sanchez, Manuella Djomaleu, Sujata Mathur, Joshua R Shak, Steven G Deeks, Michael J Peluso, Charles Y Chiu, Yuwei Zhu, Natasha B Halasa, James D Chappell, Alexandra Mellis, Carrie Reed, Raul Andino, Jeffrey N Martin, Bin Zhou, H Keipp Talbot, Claire M Midgley, and Melissa A Rolfes
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Infectious Diseases ,Immunology and Allergy - Abstract
From 2 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) household transmission studies (enrolling April 2020 to January 2022) with rapid enrollment and specimen collection for 14 days, 61% (43/70) of primary cases had culturable virus detected ≥6 days post-onset. Risk of secondary infection among household contacts tended to be greater when primary cases had culturable virus detected after onset. Regardless of duration of culturable virus, most secondary infections (70%, 28/40) had serial intervals
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- 2023
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