TY  - INPR
A1  - Corman, Victor Max
A1  - Rabenau, Holger
A1  - Adams, Ortwin
A1  - Oberle, Doris Franziska
A1  - Funk, Markus B.
A1  - Keller-Stanislawski, Brigitte
A1  - Timm, Jörg
A1  - Drosten, Christian
A1  - Ciesek, Sandra
T1  - SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic and symptomatic patients and risk for transfusion transmission
T2  - medRxiv
N2  - Oral swabs, sputum and blood samples from 18 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection were examined using real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing. Whereas oral swabs or sputum from the lower respiratory tract were tested RT-PCR positive in all patients, RNAemia was neither detected in 3 patients without symptoms nor in 14 patients with flu-like symptoms, fever or pneumonia. The only patient with RNAemia suffered from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and was artificially ventilated in an intensive care unit. Risk for SARS-CoV-2 transmission through blood components in asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals therefore seems negligible but further studies are needed.
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/73549
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-735497
IS  - 2020.03.29.20039529
ER  -