Point prevalence survey to evaluate the seropositivity for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among high-risk healthcare workers

Among 1,770 healthcare workers serving in high-risk care areas for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 39 (2.2%) were seropositive. Exposure to severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the community was associated with being seropositive. Job or unit type and percentage of time...

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Autores principales: Yogo, Norihiro, Greenwood, Kristina L., Thompson, Leslie, Wells, Pamela J., Munday, Stephen, Smith, Tyler C., Smith, Besa, Bakhtar, Omid R.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7783086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33317655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1370
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author Yogo, Norihiro
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Thompson, Leslie
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description Among 1,770 healthcare workers serving in high-risk care areas for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 39 (2.2%) were seropositive. Exposure to severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the community was associated with being seropositive. Job or unit type and percentage of time working with COVID-19 patients were not associated with positive antibody tests.
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spelling pubmed-77830862021-01-05 Point prevalence survey to evaluate the seropositivity for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among high-risk healthcare workers Yogo, Norihiro Greenwood, Kristina L. Thompson, Leslie Wells, Pamela J. Munday, Stephen Smith, Tyler C. Smith, Besa Bakhtar, Omid R. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication Among 1,770 healthcare workers serving in high-risk care areas for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 39 (2.2%) were seropositive. Exposure to severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the community was associated with being seropositive. Job or unit type and percentage of time working with COVID-19 patients were not associated with positive antibody tests. Cambridge University Press 2020-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7783086/ /pubmed/33317655 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1370 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Point prevalence survey to evaluate the seropositivity for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among high-risk healthcare workers
title_full Point prevalence survey to evaluate the seropositivity for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among high-risk healthcare workers
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title_short Point prevalence survey to evaluate the seropositivity for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among high-risk healthcare workers
title_sort point prevalence survey to evaluate the seropositivity for coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) among high-risk healthcare workers
topic Concise Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7783086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33317655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1370
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