The relationship between COVID‐19 viral load and disease severity: A systematic review
Immunity Inflammation and Disease2021Vol. 10(3), pp. e580–e580
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Omid Dadras, Amir Masoud Afsahi, Zahra Pashaei, Hengameh Mojdeganlou, Amirali Karimi, Pedram Habibi, Alireza Barzegary, Amirata Fakhfouri, Pegah Mirzapour, Nazanin Janfaza, Soheil Dehghani, Fatemeh Afroughi, Mohsen Dashti, Sepideh Hassanpour Khodaei, Esmaeil Mehraeen, Fabrício Azevedo Voltarelli, Jean‐Marc Sabatier, SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi
Abstract
The results were inconclusive about the relationship between COVID-19 severity and viral load, as a similar number of studies either approved or opposed this hypothesis. However, the studies denote the direct relationship between older age and higher SARS-CoV-2 viral load, which is a known risk factor for COVID-19 mortality. The higher viral load in older patients may serve as a mechanism for any possible relationships between COVID-19 viral load and disease severity. There was a positive correlation between SARS-CoV-2 viral load and its transmissibility. Nonetheless, further studies are recommended to precisely characterize this matter.
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