Viral burden is associated with age, vaccination, and viral variant in a population-representative study of SARS-CoV-2 that accounts for time-since-infection-related sampling bias.

In this study, we evaluated the impact of viral variant, in addition to other variables, on within-host viral burden, by analysing cycle threshold (Ct) values derived from nose and throat swabs, collected as part of the UK COVID-19 Infection Survey. Because viral burden distributions determined from...

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Main Authors:	Helen R Fryer, Tanya Golubchik, Matthew Hall, Christophe Fraser, Robert Hinch, Luca Ferretti, Laura Thomson, Anel Nurtay, Lorenzo Pellis, Thomas House, George MacIntyre-Cockett, Amy Trebes, David Buck, Paolo Piazza, Angie Green, Lorne J Lonie, Darren Smith, Matthew Bashton, Matthew Crown, Andrew Nelson, Clare M McCann, Mohammed Adnan Tariq, Claire J Elstob, Rui Nunes Dos Santos, Zack Richards, Xin Xhang, Joseph Hawley, Mark R Lee, Priscilla Carrillo-Barragan, Isobel Chapman, Sarah Harthern-Flint, COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium, David Bonsall, Katrina A Lythgoe
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-08-01
Series:	PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1011461&type=printable
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Viral burden is associated with age, vaccination, and viral variant in a population-representative study of SARS-CoV-2 that accounts for time-since-infection-related sampling bias.

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