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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2020-06-01
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Series: | mSphere |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00442-20 |