[PDF][PDF] RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2: quantitative versus qualitative

MS Han, JH Byun, Y Cho, JH Rim - 2021 - ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr
… copy numbers should be confirmed first to interpret Ct values as viral loads. In … of SARS-CoV-2
RT-PCR results shown in COVID-19 publications to avoid misunderstanding of viral load

Association between SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility, viral load, and age in households

FP Lyngse, K Mølbak, K Træholt Franck, C Nielsen… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
… In conclusion, although primary cases with high viral loads (low Ct values) were associated
with higher SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility, we found no obvious cut-off for Ct values to …

Ct values from SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic PCR assays should not be used as direct estimates of viral load

E Dahdouh, F Lázaro-Perona… - Journal of …, 2021 - journalofinfection.com
… patterns and viral loads of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …
We agree with them that determination of SARS-CoV-2 viral load in clinical samples will aid …

SARS-CoV-2 mucosal antibody development and persistence and their relation to viral load and COVID-19 symptoms

J Fröberg, J Gillard, R Philipsen, K Lanke, J Rust… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… against SARS-CoV-2 antigens and examined their associations with viral load and COVID-19
related … Baseline mucosal antibody levels were associated with variation in viral load. The …

Clinical validation of quantitative SARS-CoV-2 antigen assays to estimate SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in nasopharyngeal swabs

K Aoki, T Nagasawa, Y Ishii, S Yagi, S Okuma… - Journal of Infection and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… stated that the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is not … of viral load kinetics
indicated that access to SARS-CoV-2 … be prioritized to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 [2]. …

SARS-CoV-2 viral load as a predictor for disease severity in outpatients and hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a prospective cohort study

FC Knudtzen, TG Jensen, SO Lindvig, LD Rasmussen… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… available data that suggest higher SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in airway samples at symptom
… In this way, the novel Coronavirus differs from SARS-CoV-1, where viral loads were found to …

Effect of selected wastewater characteristics on estimation of SARS-CoV-2 viral load in wastewater

ID Amoah, T Abunama, OO Awolusi, L Pillay… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
… of COVID-19 infections. This approach is dependent on the detection and quantification of
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in untreated/raw wastewater. However, the quantification of the viral RNA …

Ct threshold values, a proxy for viral load in community SARS-CoV-2 cases, demonstrate wide variation across populations and over time

…, KB Pouwels, COVID-19 Infection Survey team - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
… percentage, independent of characteristics and viral load, and have not quantified temporal
… in SARS-CoV-2-positive tests in the first 11 months of the UK’s national COVID-19 Infection …

Implications of SARS-CoV-2 viral load in children: getting back to school and normal

CA Rostad, S Kamidani, EJ Anderson - JAMA pediatrics, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
viral load, a recent study demonstrated correlation between both Ct values and RNA viral
loads with cultivable SARS-CoV-2 virus … children and studies of viral load by age. To put these …

Infectious viral load in unvaccinated and vaccinated patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 WT, Delta and Omicron

O Puhach, K Adea, N Hulo, P Sattonnet, C Genecand… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
Viral load (VL) is one determinant of secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Emergence
of variants of concerns (VOC) Alpha and Delta was ascribed, at least partly, to higher VL. …