Article
The total number and mass of SARS-CoV-2 virions
2020-11-17
Abstract excerpt
Quantitatively describing the time course of the SARS-CoV-2 infection within an infected individual is important for understanding the current global pandemic and possible ways to combat it. Here we integrate the best current knowledge about the typical viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in bodily fluids and host tissues to estimate the total number and mass of SARS-CoV-2 virions in an infected person. We estimate that each...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 14772bef-a5c0-5039-8921-adc8a1cbec09
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.11.16.20232009
