Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection following first dose mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine in a veterans affairs long term care facility

An outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 involving four residents of a United States Veterans Affairs long term care facility occurred following administration of the first dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna) to thirty out of 33 residents. Three out of 4 positive cases were partially vaccinated and remained as...

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Autores principales: Fisher, Matthew J., Psevdos, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8225993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34175364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.06.010
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description An outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 involving four residents of a United States Veterans Affairs long term care facility occurred following administration of the first dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna) to thirty out of 33 residents. Three out of 4 positive cases were partially vaccinated and remained asymptomatic. One of 2 partially vaccinated patients who were tested for anti-spike protein antibodies had detectable levels at the time of diagnosis. The mortality rate was lower compared to a prior outbreak reported in this facility.
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spelling pubmed-82259932021-06-25 Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection following first dose mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine in a veterans affairs long term care facility Fisher, Matthew J. Psevdos, George Am J Infect Control Brief Report An outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 involving four residents of a United States Veterans Affairs long term care facility occurred following administration of the first dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine (Moderna) to thirty out of 33 residents. Three out of 4 positive cases were partially vaccinated and remained asymptomatic. One of 2 partially vaccinated patients who were tested for anti-spike protein antibodies had detectable levels at the time of diagnosis. The mortality rate was lower compared to a prior outbreak reported in this facility. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 2021-09 2021-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8225993/ /pubmed/34175364 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.06.010 Text en © 2021 The Authors 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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title Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection following first dose mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine in a veterans affairs long term care facility
title_full Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection following first dose mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine in a veterans affairs long term care facility
title_fullStr Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection following first dose mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine in a veterans affairs long term care facility
title_full_unstemmed Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection following first dose mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine in a veterans affairs long term care facility
title_short Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection following first dose mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine in a veterans affairs long term care facility
title_sort asymptomatic sars-cov-2 infection following first dose mrna-1273 covid-19 vaccine in a veterans affairs long term care facility
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8225993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34175364
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.06.010
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