| Literature DB >> 33657142 |
Gizem Alkurt1, Ahmet Murt2, Zeki Aydin3, Ozge Tatli4,5, Nihat Bugra Agaoglu1, Arzu Irvem6, Mehtap Aydin7, Ridvan Karaali8, Mustafa Gunes9, Batuhan Yesilyurt10, Hasan Turkez11, Adil Mardinoglu12,13, Mehmet Doganay14, Filiz Basinoglu15, Nurhan Seyahi2, Gizem Dinler Doganay4, Hamdi Levent Doganay1.
Abstract
COVID-19 is a global threat with an increasing number of infections. Research on IgG seroprevalence among health care workers (HCWs) is needed to re-evaluate health policies. This study was performed in three pandemic hospitals in Istanbul and Kocaeli. Different clusters of HCWs were screened for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Seropositivity rate among participants was evaluated by chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay. We recruited 813 non-infected and 119 PCR-confirmed infected HCWs. Of the previously undiagnosed HCWs, 22 (2.7%) were seropositive. Seropositivity rates were highest for cleaning staff (6%), physicians (4%), nurses (2.2%) and radiology technicians (1%). Non-pandemic clinic (6.4%) and ICU (4.3%) had the highest prevalence. HCWs in "high risk" group had similar seropositivity rate with "no risk" group (2.9 vs 3.5 p = 0.7). These findings might lead to the re-evaluation of infection control and transmission dynamics in hospitals.Entities:
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Year: 2021 PMID： 33657142 PMCID： PMC7928442 DOI： 10.1371/journal.pone.0247865
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN： 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240