Prevalence and Clinical Presentation of COVID 19 in Health Care Workers in Two Main Hospitals During the Pandemic in Shiraz, Iran
Archives of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
; 10(4) (no pagination), 2022.
Article
in English
| EMBASE | ID: covidwho-2067103
ABSTRACT
Background:
Given that immunocompromised patients are more at risk for the infection of SARS-CoV-2, epidemiological data are critical for assessing the corresponding prevalence among health care workers (HCWs) and patients at health centers. Objective(s) This study aims to investigate the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among the staff of two hospitals that take care of immunocompromised patients, including pediatrics and adults with special medical conditions. Method(s) This cross-sectional study includes all HCWs of the two hospitals;Abu Ali Sina Transplant Hospital (AASTH) and Amir al-Momenin Burn Injury Hospital (AABIH) in Shiraz, southern Iran, conducted from April 11, 2020, to June 16, 2021. The TaqMan real-time PCR assay was used to assess the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in the suspected HCWs. Result(s) Out of 1232 sampled HCWs, 694 (56%) were female. Two hundred sixty-five samples (21.5%) and 967 samples (78.5%) were prepared from AABIH, and AASTH, respectively. The results showed that 30% (373) of the clinically suspected employees had positive test results. There was a significant correlation between the risk of exposure to COVID-19 patients and the PCR positivity rate, which could be explained by the fact that 58% of the infected HCWs were in a high-risk group, 20% medium-risk, and the remaining 22% were low-risk (P < 0.0001). The rates of positive cases in females were higher than that among male counterparts (P < 0.05). Conclusion(s) In order to protect health care workers and reduce the prevalence and transmission of diseases, deficiencies must be identified and eliminated. Copyright © 2022, Author(s).
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19); Healthcare Workers; Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR); Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); adult; article; burn; controlled study; coronavirus disease 2019; cross-sectional study; employee; female; health care personnel; high risk population; human; immunocompromised patient; infection rate; Iran; major clinical study; male; multicenter study; nonhuman; pandemic; pediatrics; positivity rate; prevalence; real time polymerase chain reaction; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; surgery; transplantation
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Archives of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Year:
2022
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Article
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