SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in asymptomatic or mild symptomatic people and symptomatic patients with negative PCR results: The hidden perspective in epidemiological reports
Abstract:Background: SARS-CoV-2 has led to the current pandemic of respiratory disease. The reports of confirmed COVID-19 cases based on molecular tests do not completely cover the total number of infected people. These reports do not include the asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic patients and also the patients with false-negative RT-PCR results, while the infection is contagious in all of these conditions. Objective: In this study, we tried to improve our conception of the hidden perspective of SARS-CoV-2 in epidemiol… Show more
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