asymptomatic carrier
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person or other organism that has become infected with a pathogen without displaying signs or symptoms
Research
12,359 papers- [Advances on presymptomatic or asymptomatic carrier transmission of COVID-19].Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi = Zhonghua liuxingbingxue zazhi · 2020
- Impact of asymptomatic Clostridioides difficile carriage screening on antibiotic stewardship among hospitalized patients.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2025
- Asymptomatic dermatophyte scalp carriage: laboratory diagnosis, epidemiology and management.Mycopathologia · 2008
- Delta hepatitis--present status.Journal of hepatology · 1985
- Asymptomatic Clostridium difficile colonization as a reservoir for Clostridium difficile infection.Expert review of anti-infective therapy · 2014
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Wikidata facts
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- medical condition
- asymptomatic infection
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- WikiProject COVID-19
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Encyclopedic overview
Typhoid Mary in a 1909 newspaper illustration. Mary Mallon was an asymptomatic carrier of Salmonella typhi who is thought to have infected 53 others with typhoid fever while continuing her work as a cook.
An asymptomatic carrier is a person or other organism that has become infected with a pathogen, but shows no signs or symptoms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “asymptomatic carrier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.