High asymptomatic carriage with the Omicron variant in South Africa
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Garrett, N.
Tapley, Asa
Andriesen, Jessica
Seocharan, Ishen
Fisher, Leigh H.
Bunts, Lisa
Epsy, Nicole
Wallis, Carole L.
Randhawa, April Kaur
Miner, Maurine D.
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Oxford University Press
Abstract
We report a 23% asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2) Omicron carriage rate in
participants being enrolled into a clinical trial in South Africa,
15-fold higher than in trials before Omicron. We also found
lower CD4 + T-cell counts in persons with human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) strongly correlated with increased odds of
being SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive.
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Omicron variant, Asymptomatic carriage, PWH, South Africa (SA), Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
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Citation
Garreett, N., Tapley, A., Andriesen, J. et al. 2022, 'High asymptomatic carriage with the Omicron variant in South Africa', Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. e289-e292, doi : 10.1093/cid/ciac237.