1. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a paucisymptomatic patient: epidemiological and clinical challenge in settings with limited community transmission, Italy, February 2020.
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Nicastri E, D'Abramo A, Faggioni G, De Santis R, Mariano A, Lepore L, Molinari F, Petralito G, Fillo S, Munzi D, Corpolongo A, Bordi L, Carletti F, Castiletti C, Colavita F, Lalle E, Bevilacqua N, Giancola ML, Scorzolini L, Lanini S, Palazzolo C, De Domenico A, Spinelli MA, Scognamiglio P, Piredda P, Iacomino R, Mone A, Puro V, Petrosillo N, Battistini A, Vairo F, Lista F, and Ippolito G
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- Antibodies, Viral immunology, Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Testing, China, Clinical Laboratory Techniques, Contact Tracing, Coronavirus genetics, Coronavirus Infections transmission, Coronavirus Infections virology, Humans, Italy, Lung pathology, Male, Pandemics, Pneumonia, Viral therapy, Pneumonia, Viral transmission, Pneumonia, Viral virology, Quarantine, Radiography, Thoracic, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, SARS-CoV-2, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, World Health Organization, Young Adult, Asymptomatic Infections, Coronavirus isolation & purification, Coronavirus Infections diagnosis, Feces virology, Lung diagnostic imaging, Nasopharynx virology, Pneumonia, Viral diagnosis, Travel, Virus Shedding
- Abstract
Data concerning the transmission of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in paucisymptomatic patients are lacking. We report an Italian paucisymptomatic case of coronavirus disease 2019 with multiple biological samples positive for SARS-CoV-2. This case was detected using the World Health Organization protocol on cases and contact investigation. Current discharge criteria and the impact of extra-pulmonary SARS-CoV-2 samples are discussed.
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- 2020
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