Rapid asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 during the incubation period demonstrating strong infectivity in a cluster of youngsters aged 16-23 years outside Wuhan and characteristics of young patients with COVID-19: A prospective contact-tracing study.

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Published in J Infect on April 10, 2020

Authors

Lei Huang1, Xiuwen Zhang2, Xinyue Zhang3, Zhijian Wei4, Lingli Zhang5, Jingjing Xu5, Peipei Liang6, Yuanhong Xu7, Chengyuan Zhang8, Aman Xu9

Author Affiliations

1: Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, Anhui Province, China. Electronic address: huangleizhenting@126.com.
2: Department of Quarantine Ward, East District of First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (Feidong People's Hospital), Hefei, Anhui Province, China; Graduate School, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
3: Department of Academic Research, The First People's Hospital of Hefei, Hefei, Anhui Province, China.
4: Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, Anhui Province, China.
5: Department of Quarantine Ward, East District of First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (Feidong People's Hospital), Hefei, Anhui Province, China.
6: Department of Emergency Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui Province, China.
7: Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, Anhui Province, China. Electronic address: xyhong1964@163.com.
8: Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, East District of First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (Feidong People's Hospital), Hefei 231600, Anhui Province, China. Electronic address: 2396476405@qq.com.
9: Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, Anhui Province, China. Electronic address: amanxu@163.com.