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Decoding Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infection and Transmission.
The journal of physical chemistry letters - 3 Dec 2020
Wang Rui, Chen Jiahui, Hozumi Yuta, Yin Changchuan, Wei Guo-Wei
Abstract excerpt
One of the major challenges in controlling the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak is its asymptomatic transmission. The pathogenicity and virulence of asymptomatic COVID-19 remain mysterious. On the basis of the genotyping of 75775 SARS-CoV-2 genome isolates, we reveal that asymptomatic infection is linked to SARS-CoV-2 11083G>T mutation (i.e., L37F at nonstructure protein 6 (NSP6)). By analyzing the...
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