Term:Symptomatic

Normative

Encyclopaedic information

The CDC testing algorithm recommends additional NAATs when a person who is strongly suspected of having SARS-CoV-2 infection (i.e., a person who is symptomatic ) receives a negative result, and when a person who is asymptomatic receives a positive result.

Source: https://files.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/guidelines/covid19treatmentguidelines.pdf

Examples

Antigen tests perform best early in the course of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, when the viral load is thought to be highest.

Source: https://files.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/guidelines/covid19treatmentguidelines.pdf

Collocations

• symptomatic VTE
• symptomatic outpatients
• symptomatic women
• symptomatic illness
• symptomatic participants
• symptomatic adults
• symptomatic patients
• symptomatic COVID-19
• symptomatic disease
• symptomatic treatment

Keyness

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Research

Definition/description

Viral RNA can be easily detected within the first 14 days of symptomatic SARS-CoV infection, but convalescent samples (50 days after the onset of symptoms) are consistently PCR negative.

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682206002054?via%3Dihub

Examples

This is generally accepted to be a good model for SARS because isolation of symptomatic persons prevented onward transmission of SARS, which indicated that the latent period has limited or no infectivity.

Source: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/9/07-0081_article

Collocations

• mildly symptomatic
• overtly symptomatic
• clinically symptomatic
• acutely/severely symptomatic
• persistently symptomatic
• symptomatic individual/patient/case/person
• to become symptomatic
• to remain symptomatic
• to be symptomatic

Keyness

784

Press

Examples

The vaccine was also 88 percent effective against symptomatic disease and 96 percent effective against hospitalization.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9807911/One-shot-Johnson-Johnson-COVID-19-vaccine-lesseffective-against-Delta-variant.html

The vaccine rollout is said to be having a major impact on cutting both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases.

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britain-no-longer-pandemic-thanks-23966406

Collocations

• symptomatic disease
• symptomatic cases
• symptomatic infections

Keyness

179

Comments

Examples

Define hospital admission ,,,,,, Anybody who is triaged in AandE or admitted for any reason but happens to test positive whether symptomatic or not.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

Keyness

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