| Literature DB >> 33152200 |
Jeadran Malagón-Rojas1, Claudia Gómez-Rendón2, Eliana L Parra3, Julia Almentero3, Ruth Palma3, Ronald López3, Yesith Guillermo Toloza-Pérez3, Vivian Rubio3, Juan Felipe Bedoya3, Fernando López-Díaz3, Carlos Franco-Muñoz3, Jhonnatan Reales-González3, Marcela Mercado-Reyes3.
Abstract
Introduction: The 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has caused around 25 million cases worldwide. Asymptomatic patients have been described as potential sources of transmission. However, there are difficulties to detect them and to establish their role in the dynamics of virus transmission, which hinders the implementation of prevention strategies. Objective: To describe the behavior of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in a cohort of workers at the El Dorado “Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento” International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia. Materials and methods: A prospective cohort of 212 workers from the El Dorado airport was designed. The follow-up began in June, 2020. A survey was used to characterize health and work conditions. Every 21 day, a nasopharyngeal swab was taken to identify the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using RT-PCR. We analyzed the behavior of the cycle threshold (ORF1ab and N genes) according to the day of follow-up.Entities:
Keywords: Coronavirus infections; asymptomatic infections; respiratory distress syndrome; adult; occupational health; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
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Year: 2020 PMID: 33152200 PMCID: PMC7676845 DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.5802
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomedica ISSN: 0120-4157 Impact factor: 0.935
Figura 1Distribución de los umbrales del ciclo (cycle threshold, Ct) según el día de seguimiento (n=61 muestras positivas)