Influence of Nasopharyngeal Viral Load on the Spread of the Omicron BA.2 Variant.
Omicron
SARS-CoV-2
transmissibility
variant
viral load
Journal
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
ISSN: 1537-6591
Titre abrégé: Clin Infect Dis
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9203213
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 02 2023
08 02 2023
Historique:
received:
08
04
2022
pubmed:
8
7
2022
medline:
11
2
2023
entrez:
7
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We used variant typing polymerase chain reaction to describe the evolution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Omicron sublineages between December 2021 and mid-March 2022. The selective advantage of the BA.2 variant over BA.1 is not due to greater nasopharyngeal viral loads.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35796540
pii: 6633281
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac563
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e514-e517Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Potential conflicts of interest. The authors: No reported conflicts of interest. All authors have submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest.