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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2021

If Not COVID-19 What Is It? Analysis of COVID-19 versus Common Respiratory Viruses among Symptomatic Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Infectious Disease Referral Hospital in Manila, Philippines.

Kristal An Agrupis, Annavi Marie G Villanueva, Ana Ria Sayo, Jezreel Lazaro, Su Myat Han, Alyannah C Celis, Shuichi Suzuki, Ann Celestyn Uichanco, Jocelyn Sagurit, Rontgene Solante and 3 more

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Trial
  3. Detection of community-acquired respiratory viruses during COVID-19 pandemic in subtropical region in Japan.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2024
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  6. Providing End-of-Life Care to COVID-19 Patients: The Lived Experiences of ICU Nurses in the Philippines.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  7. COVID-19: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kristal An AgrupisSan Lazaro Hospital, Nagasaki University Collaborative Research Office, Manila 1003, Philippines.ORCID 0000-0003-2917-2589
Annavi Marie G VillanuevaSan Lazaro Hospital, Nagasaki University Collaborative Research Office, Manila 1003, Philippines.ORCID 0000-0001-7478-9903
Ana Ria SayoAdult Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Department, San Lazaro Hospital, Manila 1003, Philippines.
Jezreel LazaroAdult Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Department, San Lazaro Hospital, Manila 1003, Philippines.
Su Myat HanSchool of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8102, Japan.
Alyannah C CelisSan Lazaro Hospital, Nagasaki University Collaborative Research Office, Manila 1003, Philippines.
Shuichi SuzukiSan Lazaro Hospital, Nagasaki University Collaborative Research Office, Manila 1003, Philippines.ORCID 0000-0001-8922-7428
Ann Celestyn UichancoAdult Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Department, San Lazaro Hospital, Manila 1003, Philippines.
Jocelyn SaguritAdult Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Department, San Lazaro Hospital, Manila 1003, Philippines.
Rontgene SolanteAdult Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Department, San Lazaro Hospital, Manila 1003, Philippines.
Lay-Myint YoshidaInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
Koya AriyoshiSchool of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8102, Japan.
Chris SmithSchool of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8102, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9238-3202
Nagasaki University · JPUniversity of London · GB

Funding

Nagasaki University n/a
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 global pandemic is entering its second year. In this short report we present additional results as a supplement to our previous paper on COVID-19 and common respiratory virus screening for healthcare workers (HCWs) in a tertiary infectious disease referral hospital in Manila, Philippines. We sought to understand what etiologic agents could explain the upper/lower respiratory tract infection-like (URTI/LRTI-like) symptoms exhibited by 88% of the 324 HCWs tested. Among the patients who had URTI/LRTI-like symptoms, only seven (2%) were positive for COVID-19, while 38 (13%) of the symptomatic participants were identified positive for another viral etiologic agent. Rhinovirus was the most common infection, with 21 (9%) of the symptomatic participants positive for rhinovirus. Based on these results, testing symptomatic HCWs for common respiratory illnesses in addition to COVID-19 should be considered during this time of global pandemic.

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coinfectionsCOVID-19health care workersPhilippinesrespiratory virusesrhinovirus

Identifiers

PMID33808524
PMCPMC8005933
OpenAlexW3136339662

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