Asymptomatic COVID-19 in hospital visitors: The underestimated potential of viral shedding

In a single day, six of 150 (4%) asymptomatic visitors were diagnosed with COVID-19 at a hospital with a universal masking policy. Two inpatients (contacts) subsequently developed symptoms. More rigorous protective measures during visitation periods may need to be included in infection control pract...

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Autores principales: Passarelli, Victor C., Faico-Filho, Klinger, Moreira, Luiz Vinicius Leão, Cunha, Ana Paula, Carvalho, Joseane Mayara Almeida, Barbosa, Gabriela Rodrigues, Camargo, Clarice, Conte, Danielle D., Perosa, Ana H., Bellei, Nancy
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7592020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33129961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.10.057
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author Passarelli, Victor C.
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Cunha, Ana Paula
Carvalho, Joseane Mayara Almeida
Barbosa, Gabriela Rodrigues
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Conte, Danielle D.
Perosa, Ana H.
Bellei, Nancy
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Faico-Filho, Klinger
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description In a single day, six of 150 (4%) asymptomatic visitors were diagnosed with COVID-19 at a hospital with a universal masking policy. Two inpatients (contacts) subsequently developed symptoms. More rigorous protective measures during visitation periods may need to be included in infection control practices to reduce nosocomial transmissions.
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spelling pubmed-75920202020-10-28 Asymptomatic COVID-19 in hospital visitors: The underestimated potential of viral shedding Passarelli, Victor C. Faico-Filho, Klinger Moreira, Luiz Vinicius Leão Cunha, Ana Paula Carvalho, Joseane Mayara Almeida Barbosa, Gabriela Rodrigues Camargo, Clarice Conte, Danielle D. Perosa, Ana H. Bellei, Nancy Int J Infect Dis Short Communication In a single day, six of 150 (4%) asymptomatic visitors were diagnosed with COVID-19 at a hospital with a universal masking policy. Two inpatients (contacts) subsequently developed symptoms. More rigorous protective measures during visitation periods may need to be included in infection control practices to reduce nosocomial transmissions. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2021-01 2020-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7592020/ /pubmed/33129961 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.10.057 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Passarelli, Victor C.
Faico-Filho, Klinger
Moreira, Luiz Vinicius Leão
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Barbosa, Gabriela Rodrigues
Camargo, Clarice
Conte, Danielle D.
Perosa, Ana H.
Bellei, Nancy
Asymptomatic COVID-19 in hospital visitors: The underestimated potential of viral shedding
title Asymptomatic COVID-19 in hospital visitors: The underestimated potential of viral shedding
title_full Asymptomatic COVID-19 in hospital visitors: The underestimated potential of viral shedding
title_fullStr Asymptomatic COVID-19 in hospital visitors: The underestimated potential of viral shedding
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title_short Asymptomatic COVID-19 in hospital visitors: The underestimated potential of viral shedding
title_sort asymptomatic covid-19 in hospital visitors: the underestimated potential of viral shedding
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7592020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33129961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.10.057
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