Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection among healthcare workers in a tertiary public hospital in Curitiba, Brazil
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: We aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among healthcare workers (HCWs) in Curitiba, Brazil. METHODS: Upper respiratory samples from 1077 HCWs were tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) using reve...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:b458060997a84b6ba94059243a37caa2 2023-05-15T15:02:49+02:00 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection among healthcare workers in a tertiary public hospital in Curitiba, Brazil Regiane Nogueira Spalanzani Gustavo Genelhoud Sonia Mara Raboni Sergio Monteiro de Almeida Luciane Aparecida Pereira Indianara Rotta Barbara Maria Cavalli Francielli Brusco Moreira Carolina Lumi Tanaka Dino Gislene Reche de Almeida Takahashi Regielly Caroline Raimundo Cognialli Beatriz Sanada Spiri Lucas Bochnia-Bueno Jaqueline Carvalho de Oliveira Douglas Adamoski Daniela Fiori Gradia Ana Cláudia Bonatto Roseli Wassem Juliana Mazini Alves Raquel da Silva Padilha Vitor Jorge Woytuski Brasil Bernardo Montesanti Machado de Almeida Meri Bordignon Nogueira 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0265-2021 https://doaj.org/article/b458060997a84b6ba94059243a37caa2 EN eng Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822022000100601&tlng=en https://doaj.org/toc/1678-9849 1678-9849 doi:10.1590/0037-8682-0265-2021 https://doaj.org/article/b458060997a84b6ba94059243a37caa2 Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 55 (2022) Health personnel COVID-19 Nosocomial transmission Molecular diagnosis SARS-CoV-2 Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0265-2021 2022-12-30T21:26:57Z ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: We aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among healthcare workers (HCWs) in Curitiba, Brazil. METHODS: Upper respiratory samples from 1077 HCWs were tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction from June 16, 2020 to December 9, 2020. RESULTS: Overall, 32.7% of HCWs were infected. The positivity rates in symptomatic and asymptomatic HCWs were 39.2% and 15.9%, respectively. Hospital departments categorized as high-risk for exposure had the highest number of infected HCWs. CONCLUSIONS: Early diagnosis and isolation of infected HCWs remain key in controlling SARS-CoV-2 transmission because HCWs in close contact with COVID-19 patients are more likely to be infected than those who are not. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 55 |
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ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: We aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among healthcare workers (HCWs) in Curitiba, Brazil. METHODS: Upper respiratory samples from 1077 HCWs were tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction from June 16, 2020 to December 9, 2020. RESULTS: Overall, 32.7% of HCWs were infected. The positivity rates in symptomatic and asymptomatic HCWs were 39.2% and 15.9%, respectively. Hospital departments categorized as high-risk for exposure had the highest number of infected HCWs. CONCLUSIONS: Early diagnosis and isolation of infected HCWs remain key in controlling SARS-CoV-2 transmission because HCWs in close contact with COVID-19 patients are more likely to be infected than those who are not. |
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Regiane Nogueira Spalanzani Gustavo Genelhoud Sonia Mara Raboni Sergio Monteiro de Almeida Luciane Aparecida Pereira Indianara Rotta Barbara Maria Cavalli Francielli Brusco Moreira Carolina Lumi Tanaka Dino Gislene Reche de Almeida Takahashi Regielly Caroline Raimundo Cognialli Beatriz Sanada Spiri Lucas Bochnia-Bueno Jaqueline Carvalho de Oliveira Douglas Adamoski Daniela Fiori Gradia Ana Cláudia Bonatto Roseli Wassem Juliana Mazini Alves Raquel da Silva Padilha Vitor Jorge Woytuski Brasil Bernardo Montesanti Machado de Almeida Meri Bordignon Nogueira |
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