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Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel
Background: previous worldwide reports indicated a substantial short-term reduction in various respiratory infections during the early phase of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Aims: exploring the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on respiratory pathogens. Methods: retrospective analysis of bacteria...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36677458 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11010166 |
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author | Oster, Yonatan Abu Ahmad, Wiessam Michael-Gayego, Ayelet Rivkin, Mila Levinzon, Leonid Wolf, Dana Nir-Paz, Ran Elinav, Hila |
author_facet | Oster, Yonatan Abu Ahmad, Wiessam Michael-Gayego, Ayelet Rivkin, Mila Levinzon, Leonid Wolf, Dana Nir-Paz, Ran Elinav, Hila |
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description | Background: previous worldwide reports indicated a substantial short-term reduction in various respiratory infections during the early phase of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Aims: exploring the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on respiratory pathogens. Methods: retrospective analysis of bacterial and viral positivity rate in respiratory samples, between 1 January 2017–30 June 2022 in a tertiary hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. Results: A decline in overall respiratory tests and positivity rate was observed in the first months of the pandemic. Respiratory isolations of Hemophilus influenza and Streptococcus pneumoniae were insignificantly affected and returned to their monthly average by November 2020, despite a parallel surge in COVID-19 activity, while Mycoplasma pneumoniae was almost eliminated from the respiratory pathogens scene. Each viral pathogen acted differently, with adenovirus affected only for few months. Human-metapneumovirus and respiratory-syncytial-virus had reduced activity for approximately a year, and influenza A virus resurged in November 2021 with the elimination of Influenza-B. Conclusions: After an immediate decline in non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infections, each pathogen has a different pattern during a 2-year follow-up. These patterns might be influenced by intrinsic factors of each pathogen and different risk reduction behaviors of the population. Since some of these measures will remain in the following years, we cannot predict the timing of return to pre-COVID-19 normalcy. |
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spelling | pubmed-98649902023-01-22 Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel Oster, Yonatan Abu Ahmad, Wiessam Michael-Gayego, Ayelet Rivkin, Mila Levinzon, Leonid Wolf, Dana Nir-Paz, Ran Elinav, Hila Microorganisms Communication Background: previous worldwide reports indicated a substantial short-term reduction in various respiratory infections during the early phase of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Aims: exploring the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on respiratory pathogens. Methods: retrospective analysis of bacterial and viral positivity rate in respiratory samples, between 1 January 2017–30 June 2022 in a tertiary hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. Results: A decline in overall respiratory tests and positivity rate was observed in the first months of the pandemic. Respiratory isolations of Hemophilus influenza and Streptococcus pneumoniae were insignificantly affected and returned to their monthly average by November 2020, despite a parallel surge in COVID-19 activity, while Mycoplasma pneumoniae was almost eliminated from the respiratory pathogens scene. Each viral pathogen acted differently, with adenovirus affected only for few months. Human-metapneumovirus and respiratory-syncytial-virus had reduced activity for approximately a year, and influenza A virus resurged in November 2021 with the elimination of Influenza-B. Conclusions: After an immediate decline in non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infections, each pathogen has a different pattern during a 2-year follow-up. These patterns might be influenced by intrinsic factors of each pathogen and different risk reduction behaviors of the population. Since some of these measures will remain in the following years, we cannot predict the timing of return to pre-COVID-19 normalcy. MDPI 2023-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9864990/ /pubmed/36677458 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11010166 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Oster, Yonatan Abu Ahmad, Wiessam Michael-Gayego, Ayelet Rivkin, Mila Levinzon, Leonid Wolf, Dana Nir-Paz, Ran Elinav, Hila Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel |
title | Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel |
title_full | Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel |
title_fullStr | Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel |
title_full_unstemmed | Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel |
title_short | Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel |
title_sort | viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens during the covid-19 pandemic in israel |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9864990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36677458 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11010166 |
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