Seroprevalence of CoVID-19 among health care professionals (HCPs) of tertiary care hospital of northern state of India

Kumar, Dinesh; Bhota, Sakshi; Gupta, Garima; Sood, Tarun; Kanwal, Shweta; Jaryal, SubhashC; Raina, Sunil Kumar

doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_288_21

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“…7 similarly during SARS epidemic in 2004 HCWs comprised 20-40% of cases. 8 The data on nation by nation number of HCW infected with SARS Cov-2 and associated mortality is not clear as most countries do not make the data publicly available. A study was performed among members of the Infectious Diseases International Research Initiative found that although there were differences among the 37 countries that joined the survey; the median of the HCW deaths in 100,000 per population of the country was 0.05.…”

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A screening strategy to prevent hospital acquired COVID -19 in peak pandemic period

Garg,

Agarwal,

Singh

et al. 2023

SAJHP

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Health care worker (HCW) are at increased risk for Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARSCoV-2) infection. The study evaluates seroprevalence of SARS CoV-2 IgG antibody among HCW during peak pandemic period and plans a screening strategy for early identification and isolation of HCW. This is the prospective cross sectional study of HCW where High risk and low risk HCW were tested for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies using Architect automated analyser. Out of 264 HCW, 36 (13.6%) HCW were positive for SARS CoV-2 IgG antibodies. Seroprevalence was 14.7% in low risk group while 13.2 % among high risk group. Serosurvey could detect antibody in 47.3% HCW which were either negative by COVID-19 RTPCR or were never tested owing to absence of clinical symptoms.SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody were absent in 39% previously COVID-19 positive HCW. Equal seroprevalence in both the groups of HCW during peak of pandemic is suggestive of community transmission in India and robust infection control policy of hospital. Also, we conclude that there is need of multiprong approach with serial diagnostic screening of COVID infection in health care worker which should include both RTPCR and serological test.

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A screening strategy to prevent hospital acquired COVID -19 in peak pandemic period

Garg,

Agarwal,

Singh

et al. 2023

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Impact of COVID-19 Vaccination on Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among the Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Centre, South India

Elangovan¹,

Hussain²,

Muthuprakash³

et al. 2022

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Global vaccine development efforts have been accelerated in response to the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims to determine the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies among vaccine-naïve healthcare workers and to describe the impact of vaccination roll-out on COVID-19 antibody prevalence among the health care centers in tertiary care centers in South India. Serum samples collected from vaccinated and unvaccinated health care workers between January 2021 and April 2021were subjected to COVID-19 IgG ELISA, and adverse effects after the first and second dose of receiving the Covishield vaccine were recorded. The vaccinated group was followed for a COVID-19 breakthrough infection for a period of 6 months. Among the recruited HCW, 156 and 157 participants were from the vaccinated and unvaccinated group, respectively. The seroprevalence (COVID-19 IgG ELISA) among the vaccinated and unvaccinated Health Care Workers (HCW) was 91.7% and 38.2%, respectively, which is statistically significant. Systemic and local side-effects after Covishield vaccination occur at lower frequencies than reported in phase 3 trials. Since the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has commenced in our tertiary care hospital, seropositivity for COVID-19 IgG has risen dramatically and clearly shows trends in vaccine-induced antibodies among the health care workers.

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Seroprevalence of CoVID-19 among health care professionals (HCPs) of tertiary care hospital of northern state of India

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A screening strategy to prevent hospital acquired COVID -19 in peak pandemic period

A screening strategy to prevent hospital acquired COVID -19 in peak pandemic period

Impact of COVID-19 Vaccination on Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among the Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Centre, South India

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