@article{6ce3fca2a668429f942918837e838c5a,
title = "High Asymptomatic Carriage With the Omicron Variant in South Africa",
abstract = "We report a 23% asymptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2) Omicron carriage rate in participants being enrolled into a clinical trial in South Africa, 15-fold higher than in trials before Omicron. We also found lower CD4+T-cell counts in persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) strongly correlated with increased odds of being SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive.",
keywords = "Omicron variant, PWH, SARS-CoV-2, South Africa, asymptomatic carriage",
author = "{on behalf of the Ubuntu Study Team} and Nigel Garrett and Asa Tapley and Jessica Andriesen and Ishen Seocharan and Fisher, {Leigh H.} and Lisa Bunts and Nicole Espy and Wallis, {Carole L.} and Randhawa, {April Kaur} and Miner, {Maurine D.} and Nzeera Ketter and Margaret Yacovone and Ameena Goga and Yunda Huang and John Hural and Philip Kotze and Bekker, {Linda Gail} and Gray, {Glenda E.} and Lawrence Corey and Khatija Ahmed and Sharlaa Badal-Faesen and Shaun Barnabas and William Brumskine and Kim Comline and Andreas Diacon and Thozama Dubula and Katherine Gill and Coert Grobbelaar and Craig Innes and Sheetal Kassim and Sheena Kotze and Erica Lazarus and Johannes Lombaard and Angelique Luabeya and Maboa, {Rebone Molobane} and Scott Mahoney and Disebo Mahkaza and Moelo Malahleha and Daniel Malan and Kathryn Mngadi and Nivashnee Naicker and Vimla Naicker and Logashvari Naidoo and Maphoshane Nchabeleng and Mohammed Rassool and Elizabeth Spooner and Hugo Tempelman and Nyaradzo Mgodi and Sufia Dadabhai and Joe Makhema",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.",
year = "2022",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/cid/ciac237",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "75",
pages = "E289--E292",
journal = "Clinical Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1058-4838",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "1",
}