Asymptomatic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in a rehabilitation facility: evolution of the presence of nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 and serological antibody responses.
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
At the start of the UK coronavirus disease 2019 epidemic, this rare point prevalence study revealed that one-third of patients (15 of 45) in a London inpatient rehabilitation unit were found to be infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) but asymptomatic. We report on 8 patients in detail, including their clinical stability, the evolution of their nasopharyngeal viral reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) burden, and their antibody levels over time, revealing the infection dynamics by RT-PCR and serology during the acute phase. Notably, a novel serological test for antibodies against the receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 showed that 100% of our asymptomatic cohort remained seropositive 3-6 weeks after diagnosis.
Date Issued
2021-01-15
Date Acceptance
2020-09-25
Citation
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021, 223 (2), pp.192-196
ISSN
0022-1899
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Start Page
192
End Page
196
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume
223
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
License URL
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33535238
PII: 5924943
Subjects
COVID-19
Imperial Hybrid DABA
SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain (RBD)
anti-NP
anti-RBD
antibodies to nucleoprotein
asymptomatic
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Date Publish Online
2020-10-16