Environmental Sampling for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 During a COVID-19 Outbreak on the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship. (21st July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yamagishi, Takuya; Ohnishi, Makoto; Matsunaga, Nobuaki; Kakimoto, Kensaku; Kamiya, Hajime; Okamoto, Kiyoko; Suzuki, Motoi; Gu, Yoshiaki; Sakaguchi, Mikiyo; Tajima, Taichi; Takaya, Saho; Ohmagari, Norio; Takeda, Makoto; Matsuyama, Shuyoku; Shirato, Kazuya; Nao, Naganori; Hasegawa, Hideki; Kageyama, Tsutomu; Takayama, Ikuyo; Saito, Shinji; Wada, Koji; Fujita, Retsu; Saito, Hiroki; Okinaka, Keiji; Griffith, Mathew; Parry, Amy Elizabeth; Barnetson, Brenda; Leonard, James; Wakita, Takaji
• Is Part Of: Journal of infectious diseases. Volume 222:Number 7(2020)
• Page Start: 1098
• Page End: 1102
• Publication Date: 2020-07-21
• Subjects: COVID-19 -- SARS-CoV-2 -- cruise ship -- Diamond Princess -- environmental sampling; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Communicable Diseases -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 616.9
• DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa437
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-1899

Abstract

Abstract: During a COVID-19 outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship we sampled environmental surfaces after passengers and crew vacated cabins. SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in 58 of 601 samples (10%) from case cabins 1–17 days after cabins were vacated but not from noncase cabins. There was no difference in detection proportion between cabins of symptomatic (15%, 28/189; cycle quantification [Cq], 29.79–38.86) and asymptomatic cases (21%, 28/131; Cq, 26.21–38.99). No SARS-CoV-2 virus was isolated from any of the samples. Transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 from symptomatic and asymptomatic patients may be similar and surfaces could be involved in transmission.