A considerable proportion of individuals with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in Tibetan population

  1. Huan Song
  2. Jun Xiao
  3. Jiajun Qiu
  4. Jin Yin
  5. Huazhen Yang
  6. Rui Shi
  7. Wei Zhang

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Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) quickly became a major epidemic threat in the whole China. We analysed SARS-Cov-2 infected cases from Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and noted divergent characteristics of these Tibetans infected cases compared to Han Chinese, characterizing by a considerable proportion of asymptomatic carriers (21.7%), and few symptomatic patients with initial symptom of fever (7.7%). Here, we did a descriptive study on clinical characteristics of 18 asymptomatic individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The median age of these asymptomatic carriers was 31 years and one third of them were students, aged under 20 years. Notably, some of asymptomatic carriers had recognizable changes in radiological and laboratory indexes. Our finding indicates a potentially big number of SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic carriers in prevalent area, highlighting a necessity of screening individuals with close contact of infected patients, for a better control on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: The study was approved by West China Hospital Ethics Committee (reference no.2020-190) and written informed consent was obtained from patients in People’s Hospital of Daofu county before enrolment.
    Consent: The study was approved by West China Hospital Ethics Committee (reference no.2020-190) and written informed consent was obtained from patients in People’s Hospital of Daofu county before enrolment.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

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    No key resources detected.

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

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