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Can Covid-19 be iatrogenically auto-transmitted through combined oropharengeal and nasopharengeal swabs test with one Bar?

Since the inception of the pandemic, almost all countries have been testing Covid-19 via a swab test with one bar (combined OP and NP). They use the same bar - first an oropharynx swab and then a nasopharynx swab- This manner of application causes oropharengeal Covid-19 viruses to be inoculated into...

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Autor principal: Alagozlu, Hakan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9190182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35721254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2022.110892
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description Since the inception of the pandemic, almost all countries have been testing Covid-19 via a swab test with one bar (combined OP and NP). They use the same bar - first an oropharynx swab and then a nasopharynx swab- This manner of application causes oropharengeal Covid-19 viruses to be inoculated into the nasopharynx and help grow Covid-19 disease infection in that area as well. We speculate that asymptomatic Covid- 19 carriers can be converted to pre-symptomatic people via auto-transmission iatrogenically. This highlights the critical role of asymptomatic cases in the progression of the ongoing pandemic. Also,infectivity can also be carried through nostrils to nasopharengeal area via manual intervention with one bar.
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spelling pubmed-91901822022-06-13 Can Covid-19 be iatrogenically auto-transmitted through combined oropharengeal and nasopharengeal swabs test with one Bar? Alagozlu, Hakan Med Hypotheses Letter to Editors Since the inception of the pandemic, almost all countries have been testing Covid-19 via a swab test with one bar (combined OP and NP). They use the same bar - first an oropharynx swab and then a nasopharynx swab- This manner of application causes oropharengeal Covid-19 viruses to be inoculated into the nasopharynx and help grow Covid-19 disease infection in that area as well. We speculate that asymptomatic Covid- 19 carriers can be converted to pre-symptomatic people via auto-transmission iatrogenically. This highlights the critical role of asymptomatic cases in the progression of the ongoing pandemic. Also,infectivity can also be carried through nostrils to nasopharengeal area via manual intervention with one bar. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-08 2022-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9190182/ /pubmed/35721254 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2022.110892 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 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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Can Covid-19 be iatrogenically auto-transmitted through combined oropharengeal and nasopharengeal swabs test with one Bar?
title Can Covid-19 be iatrogenically auto-transmitted through combined oropharengeal and nasopharengeal swabs test with one Bar?
title_full Can Covid-19 be iatrogenically auto-transmitted through combined oropharengeal and nasopharengeal swabs test with one Bar?
title_fullStr Can Covid-19 be iatrogenically auto-transmitted through combined oropharengeal and nasopharengeal swabs test with one Bar?
title_full_unstemmed Can Covid-19 be iatrogenically auto-transmitted through combined oropharengeal and nasopharengeal swabs test with one Bar?
title_short Can Covid-19 be iatrogenically auto-transmitted through combined oropharengeal and nasopharengeal swabs test with one Bar?
title_sort can covid-19 be iatrogenically auto-transmitted through combined oropharengeal and nasopharengeal swabs test with one bar?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9190182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35721254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2022.110892
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