Prevalence of COVID-19 Antibodies in Healthcare Workers at the Peak of the Pandemic in Mumbai, India: A Preliminary Study

Healthcare worker (HCW) infections due to COVID-19 are of serious consequence. Testing for antibodies against COVID-19 in HCWs has been previously recommended. We conducted a serosurvey in HCWs at a private hospital in Mumbai which is treating COVID patients. A total of 244 HCWs were tested. The pre...

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Autores principales: Singhal, Tanu, Shah, Sweta, Naik, Reshma, Kazi, Amreen, Thakkar, Pooja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33154264
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmm.IJMM_20_308
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author Singhal, Tanu
Shah, Sweta
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Thakkar, Pooja
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description Healthcare worker (HCW) infections due to COVID-19 are of serious consequence. Testing for antibodies against COVID-19 in HCWs has been previously recommended. We conducted a serosurvey in HCWs at a private hospital in Mumbai which is treating COVID patients. A total of 244 HCWs were tested. The prevalence of infection in asymptomatic HCWs was 4.3% and in previously symptomatic untested HCWs was 70%. We recommend that HCWs with a previous history of COVID symptoms who were not tested/tested negative by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction should be tested for antibodies at least 2 weeks after onset of symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-77096502020-12-03 Prevalence of COVID-19 Antibodies in Healthcare Workers at the Peak of the Pandemic in Mumbai, India: A Preliminary Study Singhal, Tanu Shah, Sweta Naik, Reshma Kazi, Amreen Thakkar, Pooja Indian J Med Microbiol Brief Communication Healthcare worker (HCW) infections due to COVID-19 are of serious consequence. Testing for antibodies against COVID-19 in HCWs has been previously recommended. We conducted a serosurvey in HCWs at a private hospital in Mumbai which is treating COVID patients. A total of 244 HCWs were tested. The prevalence of infection in asymptomatic HCWs was 4.3% and in previously symptomatic untested HCWs was 70%. We recommend that HCWs with a previous history of COVID symptoms who were not tested/tested negative by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction should be tested for antibodies at least 2 weeks after onset of symptoms. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020 2020-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7709650/ /pubmed/33154264 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmm.IJMM_20_308 Text en Copyright © 2020 Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 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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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmm.IJMM_20_308
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