In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection according to age. Study: Asymptomatic ...

In a recent study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers identified that among healthy young adults, the development of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 ...

A cough or sneeze in the checkout line at the grocery store may elicit fear of COVID-19, but that maskless person quietly sitting next to you on the subway could pose just as much of a threat, public ...

A common genetic variant explains why some people are asymptomatic after being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, according to our recently published study in the journal Nature. We found ...

Asymptomatic TB represents a substantial and persistent component of the TB burden in Japan, including potentially infectious cases. Reliance on symptom-based case detection alone may miss a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — As the coronavirus emerged, so did a mystery: Why did some who got infected never develop symptoms? One likely explanation is it may be a person’s lucky genes. A new study published ...

An estimated 70% of primary care physicians reported in a survey that they would still prescribe antibiotics to treat asymptomatic infections based solely on a positive urine specimen. This is despite ...

Based on studies published through July 2021, most SARS-CoV-2 infections were not persistently asymptomatic, and asymptomatic infections were less infectious than symptomatic infections, according to ...

Health officials are grappling with new questions after an American who tested positive for the Andes strain of hantavirus ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Epidemiologists examining the biggest Chinese outbreak of COVID-19 in two years are trying to ascertain why the proportion of asymptomatic cases is so high, and what it could mean ...