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High seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in elderly care employees in Sweden
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- Lindahl, Johanna (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi,Department of Biosciences, International Livestock Research Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam,Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper (KV),Department of Clinical Sciences,Uppsala University,International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
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- Hoffman, Tove (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi,Infektionsmedicin
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- Esmaeilzadeh, Mouna (author)
- Department of Medical Sciences, Zoonosis Science Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Olsen, Björn (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi,Infektionsmedicin,Department of Medical Sciences, Zoonosis Science Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Winter, Reidar (author)
- Department of Cardiology and Clinical Physiology, eHeart AB, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Amer, Stefan (author)
- Saltsjöbaden, Sweden
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- Molnár, Christian (author)
- Karolinska Institutet,Saltsjöbaden, Sweden
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- Svalberg, Ann (author)
- Saltsjöbaden, Sweden
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- Lundkvist, Åke (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi,Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper
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- 2020-08-05
- 2020
- English.
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In: Infection Ecology & Epidemiology. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2000-8686. ; 10:1
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Abstract
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- The COVID-19 pandemic is growing and spread in the Swedish elderly care system during April 2020. The increasing number of employees on sick-leave due to COVID-19 created severe logistic problems. Some elderly care homes therefore started to screen their personnel to secure the safety of the elderly and to avoid unnecessary quarantine of potentially immune employees.Secondary data from a screening with a COVID-19 rapid test for detection of SARS-CoV-2-specific IgM and IgG of 1,005 employees in 22 elderly care homes in Stockholm, Sweden, were analyzed. Seropositive employees were found in 21 out of the 22 care homes. In total, 23% (231/1,005) of the employees tested positive for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, and 14.3% (144/1,005) were found positive for IgM (either alone or combined with IgG), indicating recent or present infection. Of those that tested seropositive, 46.5% did not report any clinical symptoms, indicating pre- or asymptomatic infections. Reported symptoms with the highest correlation with seropositivity were fever and loss of smell and taste.These results suggest that antibody testing of employees in elderly care homes is valuable for surveillance of disease development and a crucial screening tool in the effort to decrease the death toll in this pandemic.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Infektionsmedicin (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Infectious Medicine (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Annan medicin och hälsovetenskap -- Gerontologi, medicinsk/hälsovetenskaplig inriktning (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Other Medical and Health Sciences -- Gerontology, specialising in Medical and Health Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2
- rapid test
- IgM
- IgG
- employees
- elderly care homes
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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