Viral load and contact heterogeneity predict SARS-CoV-2 transmission and super-spreading events

A Goyal, DB Reeves, EF Cardozo-Ojeda, JT Schiffer… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
… We designed a series of steps to estimate the viral load required for SARS-CoV-2 and
influenza transmission, as well as conditions required to explain the observed over- dispersion of …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), viral load and clinical outcomes; lessons learned one year into the pandemic: a systematic review

S Shenoy - World Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Emergency Use Authorization for quantitative viral load assay in the current … SARS-CoV-2
viral load assay correlates with severity of infection and mortality? High SARS-CoV-2 viral load

[HTML][HTML] Upper respiratory viral load in asymptomatic individuals and mildly symptomatic patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection

SH Ra, JS Lim, G Kim, MJ Kim, J Jung, SH Kim - Thorax, 2021 - thorax.bmj.com
viral loads in such individuals are lacking. We assessed the viral loads in asymptomatic
individuals with SARS-CoV-2 … in comparison with those in symptomatic patients with COVID-19. …

Cycle threshold values in RT‐PCR to determine dynamics of SARSCoV2 viral load: An approach to reduce the isolation period for COVID19 patients

C Aranha, V Patel, V Bhor… - Journal of medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… the duration of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in individuals with different Ct values and evaluated
the dynamics of viral load in cases that required 15–30 days to clear SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA. …

Waning of SARS-CoV-2 booster viral-load reduction effectiveness

M Levine-Tiefenbrun, I Yelin, H Alapi, E Herzel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
COVID-19 vaccine has been shown to reduce viral load of breakthrough infections (BTIs),
an important factor affecting infectiousness. This viral-load … Ct values of SARS-CoV-2 qRT-…

[HTML][HTML] Infectious viral load in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals infected with ancestral, Delta or Omicron SARS-CoV-2

O Puhach, K Adea, N Hulo, P Sattonnet, C Genecand… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
viral load (VL) expelled as droplets and aerosols by infected individuals partly determines
transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)… SARS-CoV-2

Efficacy of commercial mouth-rinses on SARS-CoV-2 viral load in saliva: randomized control trial in Singapore

CJ Seneviratne, P Balan, KKK Ko, NS Udawatte, D Lai… - Infection, 2021 - Springer
… available mouth-rinses against SARS-CoV-2 [12]. Given that … mouth-rinses to reduce the
SARS-CoV-2 viral load in saliva, we … salivary SARS-CoV-2 viral load in a cohort of SARS-CoV-2-…

Modelling upper respiratory viral load dynamics of SARS-CoV-2

JD Challenger, CY Foo, Y Wu, AWC Yan… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
… We fitted two types of models to the viral load data from the first 15 days from onset of
symptoms (see the “Materials and methods” section), using only subjects with at least three …

[PDF][PDF] SARS-CoV-2 viral load and the severity of COVID-19

C Heneghan, J Brassey, T Jefferson - Centre for Evidence-Based …, 2020 - fwc.gov.au
… We discuss evidence in SARs, SARs-CoV-2 and Influenza and the relationship of viral
load and severity of the disease. We then present a summary of the sources that verify current …

[HTML][HTML] The kinetics of viral load and antibodies to SARS-CoV-2

J Sun, X Tang, R Bai, C Liang, L Zeng, H Lin… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2020 - Elsevier
… We found higher viral loads and prolonged shedding of virus RNA in severe cases of
COVID-19 in nasopharyngeal (1.3 × 10 6 vs 6.4 × 10 4 , p < 0.05; 7∼8 weeks) and throat (6.9 × 10 …