Unvaccinated PLWH Have High Rate of Asymptomatic Omicron Carriage

Unvaccinated PLWH Have High Rate of Asymptomatic Omicron Carriage

A South African study demonstrates that asymptomatic carriage can be up to 30% in unvaccinated individuals living with HIV. Let's review.

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Reference URL list from Tuesday, Jan. 11 2022

High Rate of Asymptomatic Carriage Associated with Variant Strain Omicron | medRxiv
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.20.21268130v1

High Rate of Asymptomatic Carriage Associated with Variant Strain Omicron
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.20.21268130v1.full.pdf

South African studies suggest Omicron has higher 'asymptomatic carriage' | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/south-african-studies-suggest-omicron-has-higher-asymptomatic-carriage-2022-01-11/

An estimation of the proportion of asymptomatic Omicron infection – paolo maccallini
https://paolomaccallini.com/2022/01/03/happy-new-variant/

HIV - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV

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