Asymptomatic surveillance testing for COVID-19 in health care professional students: lessons learned from a low prevalence setting

被引：1

作者：

Burrows, Alyssa G. ^{[1
,2
]}

Linton, Sophia ^{[1
,2
]}

Thiele, Jenny ^{[1
,2
]}

Sheth, Prameet M. ^{[3
,4
,5
]}

Evans, Gerald A. ^{[1
]}

Archer, Stephen ^{[1
,6
]}

Doliszny, Katharine M. ^{[1
]}

Finlayson, Marcia ^{[7
]}

Flynn, Leslie ^{[8
]}

Huang, Yun ^{[5
]}

Kasmani, Azim ^{[9
,10
]}

Hugh Guan, T. ^{[1
,9
,10
,14
]}

Maier, Allison ^{[9
]}

Hansen-Taugher, Adrienne ^{[9
]}

Moore, Kieran ^{[9
,10
]}

Sanfilippo, Anthony ^{[1
]}

Snelgrove-Clarke, Erna ^{[11
]}

Tripp, Dean A. ^{[12
]}

Walker, David M. C. ^{[13
,14
]}

Vanner, Stephen ^{[1
,4
]}

Ellis, Anne K. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Queens Univ, Dept Med, Kingston, ON, Canada

[2] Kingston Hlth Sci Ctr, Allergy Res Unit, Watkins 1D,KGH Site,76 Stuart, Kingston, ON K7L2V7, Canada

[3] Queens Univ, Dept Biomed & Mol Sci, Kingston, ON, Canada

[4] Queens Univ, Fac Hlth Sci, Gastrointestinal Dis Res Unit GIDRU, Kingston, ON, Canada

[5] Queens Univ, Pathol & Mol Med, Kingston, ON, Canada

[6] Queens Univ, Queens Cardiopulm Unit, Kingston, ON, Canada

[7] Queens Univ, Sch Rehabil Therapy, Kingston, ON, Canada

[8] Queens Univ, Fac Hlth Sci, Kingston, ON, Canada

[9] Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington KFL&A Publ H, Kingston, ON, Canada

[10] Queens Univ, Dept Family Med, Kingston, ON, Canada

[11] Queens Univ, Fac Hlth Sci Sch Nursing, Kingston, ON, Canada

[12] Queens Univ, Dept Psychol, Anesthesia, Urol, Kingston, ON, Canada

[13] Queens Univ, Dept Emergency Med, Kingston, ON, Canada

[14] Queens Univ, Sch Policy Studies, Kingston, ON, Canada

来源：

ALLERGY ASTHMA AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY | 2023年 / 19卷 / 01期

关键词：

COVID-19; Infectious disease; Asymptomatic testing; RT-PCR; Health care professional students; Young adults; Respiratory syncytial virus; Influenza a&b; Screening questionnaire; OUTBREAK;

D O I：

10.1186/s13223-023-00769-4

中图分类号：

R392 [医学免疫学];

学科分类号：

100102 ;

摘要：

The novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely impacted the training of health care professional students because of concerns of potential asymptomatic transmission to colleagues and vulnerable patients. From May 27th, 2020, to June 23rd 2021; at a time when B.1.1.7 (alpha) and B.1.617.2 (delta) were the dominant circulating variants, PCR testing was conducted on 1,237 nasopharyngeal swabs collected from 454 asymptomatic health care professional students as they returned to their studies from across Canada to Kingston, ON, a low prevalence area during that period for COVID-19. Despite 46.7% of COVID-19 infections occurring in the 18-29 age group in Kingston, severe-acute-respiratory coronavirus-2 was not detected in any of the samples suggesting that negligible asymptomatic infection occurred in this group and that PCR testing in this setting may not be warranted as a screening tool.

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