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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2020

Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Nursing Homes, Barcelona, Spain, April 2020.

Blanca Borras-Bermejo, Xavier Martínez-Gómez, María Gutierrez San Miguel, Juliana Esperalba, Andrés Antón, Elisabet Martin, Marta Selvi, María José Abadías, Antonio Román, Tomàs Pumarola and 2 more

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. The importance of prevalence and pre-test probability on the microbiological diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2: the case of Spain in 2020.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2023
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  9. Managing the Impact of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Facilities: An Update.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022
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  19. SARS-CoV-2 and Wisconsin Nursing Homes: Temporal Dynamics During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2021
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  20. Pooled testing for SARS-CoV-2, options for efficiency at scale.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Blanca Borras-Bermejo
Xavier Martínez-Gómez
María Gutierrez San Miguel
Juliana Esperalba
Andrés Antón
Elisabet Martin
Marta Selvi
María José Abadías
Antonio Román
Tomàs Pumarola
Magda Campins
Benito Almirante

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the coronavirus disease pandemic in Spain, from April 10-24, 2020, a total of 5,869 persons were screened for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 at nursing homes. Among residents, 768 (23.9%) tested positive; among staff, 403 (15.2%). Of those testing positive, 69.7% of residents and 55.8% of staff were asymptomatic.

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BetacoronavirusAgedAged, 80 and overAsymptomatic InfectionsCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19FemaleHomes for the AgedHumansMaleNursing HomesPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2Spain2019 novel coronavirus diseasecoronaviruscoronavirus diseaseCOVID-19elderlyinfection controlnursing homesprevention and controlrespiratory infectionsreverse transcription PCRSARS-CoV-2severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Spainviruseszoonoses

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PMID32574139
PMCPMC7454057

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