Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients in Earlier Stages Exhaled Millions of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Per Hour. (28th August 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ma, Jianxin; Qi, Xiao; Chen, Haoxuan; Li, Xinyue; Zhang, Zheng; Wang, Haibin; Sun, Lingli; Zhang, Lu; Guo, Jiazhen; Morawska, Lidia; Grinshpun, Sergey A; Biswas, Pratim; Flagan, Richard C; Yao, Maosheng
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 72:Number 10(2021)
• Page Start: e652
• Page End: e654
• Publication Date: 2020-08-28
• Subjects: COVID-19 -- SARS-CoV-2 -- exhaled breath -- airborne transmission; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1283
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

Abstract: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients exhaled millions of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA copies per hour, which plays an important role in COVID-19 transmission. Exhaled breath had a higher positive rate (26.9%, n = 52) than surface (5.4%, n = 242) and air (3.8%, n = 26) samples.