The ratio between SARS-CoV-2 RNA viral load and culturable viral titer differs depending on stage of infection
Michael K Porter, Alexander Viloria Winnett, Linhui Hao, Natasha Shelby, Jessica A Reyes, Noah W Schlenker, Anna E Romano, Colton Tognazzini, Matthew Feaster, Ying-Ying Goh, Michael Gale Jr, Rustem F Ismagilov
doi:10.1101/2023.07.06.23292300
Analysis of incident, longitudinal RNA viral loads in saliva and nasal swabs and culturable viral titers in nasal swabs collected twice-daily by a tricenarian male infected with SARS-CoV-2 revealed the ratio between viral load and viral titer can be five orders of magnitude higher during early infection than late infection.
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