Public health response to an outbreak of SARS-CoV2 infection in a Barcelona prison

An outbreak of SARS-CoV2 infection in a Barcelona prison was studied. One hundred and forty-eight inmates and 36 prison staff were evaluated by rt-PCR, and 24.1% (40 prisoners, two health workers and four non-health workers) tested positive. In all, 94.8% of cases were asymptomatic. The inmates were...

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Autores principales: Marco, A., Gallego, C., Pérez-Cáceres, V., Guerrero, R. A., Sánchez-Roig, M., Sala-Farré, R. M., Fernández-Náger, J., Turu, E.
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8060538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33849684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821000789
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author Marco, A.
Gallego, C.
Pérez-Cáceres, V.
Guerrero, R. A.
Sánchez-Roig, M.
Sala-Farré, R. M.
Fernández-Náger, J.
Turu, E.
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Guerrero, R. A.
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description An outbreak of SARS-CoV2 infection in a Barcelona prison was studied. One hundred and forty-eight inmates and 36 prison staff were evaluated by rt-PCR, and 24.1% (40 prisoners, two health workers and four non-health workers) tested positive. In all, 94.8% of cases were asymptomatic. The inmates were isolated in prison module 4, which was converted into an emergency COVID unit. There were no deaths. Generalised screening and the isolation and evaluation of the people infected were key measures. Symptom-based surveillance must be supplemented by rapid contact-based monitoring in order to avoid asymptomatic spread among prisoners and the community at large.
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spelling pubmed-80605382021-04-22 Public health response to an outbreak of SARS-CoV2 infection in a Barcelona prison Marco, A. Gallego, C. Pérez-Cáceres, V. Guerrero, R. A. Sánchez-Roig, M. Sala-Farré, R. M. Fernández-Náger, J. Turu, E. Epidemiol Infect From the Field An outbreak of SARS-CoV2 infection in a Barcelona prison was studied. One hundred and forty-eight inmates and 36 prison staff were evaluated by rt-PCR, and 24.1% (40 prisoners, two health workers and four non-health workers) tested positive. In all, 94.8% of cases were asymptomatic. The inmates were isolated in prison module 4, which was converted into an emergency COVID unit. There were no deaths. Generalised screening and the isolation and evaluation of the people infected were key measures. Symptom-based surveillance must be supplemented by rapid contact-based monitoring in order to avoid asymptomatic spread among prisoners and the community at large. Cambridge University Press 2021-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8060538/ /pubmed/33849684 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821000789 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://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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Sala-Farré, R. M.
Fernández-Náger, J.
Turu, E.
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