Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Household Transmission During the Omicron Era in Massachusetts: A Prospective, Case-Ascertained Study Using Genomic Epidemiology
Household contacts of a person newly diagnosed with COVID-19 are at high risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection in the following 2 weeks. This is, however, not only due to infection from the household index case, but also because the presence of an infected household member implies increased SARS-CoV-2 community transmission.
Authors
- Katelyn S. Messer
- Ariana T. Leonelli
- Kathryn E. Stephenson
- Sabrina T. Dobbins
- Nancy Littlehale
- Michael Springer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3970-6380)
- Pardis C. Sabeti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9843-1890)
- Gage K. Moreno
- Bronwyn MacInnis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0082-968X)
- Katherine C. DeRuff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6011-4323)
- Amelia Capone
- Taylor Brock-Fisher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5388-9315)
- Audrey B. Nathanson
- Brittany A. Petros (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2110-7475)
- Siang Dim
- Eric Y. Dai
- Jaspreet Banga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1479-3721)
- Viola Appiah-Danquah
- Maura Crowther
Institutions
- Broad Institute (US)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard (US)
- Lahey Medical Center (US)
- Center for Systems Biology (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2024-10-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae591
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.78
Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Harvard Catalyst
- Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases