Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients Can Contaminate Their Surroundings: an Environment Sampling Study

ABSTRACT The contamination of patients’ surroundings by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) remains understudied. We sampled the surroundings and the air of six negative-pressure non-intensive care unit (non-ICU) rooms in a designated isolation ward in Chengdu, China, that w...

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Main Authors: Li Wei, Ji Lin, Xiaofei Duan, Wenzhi Huang, Xiaojun Lu, Juan Zhou, Zhiyong Zong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-06-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00442-20