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ArticleAllergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology2023

Asymptomatic surveillance testing for COVID-19 in health care professional students: lessons learned from a low prevalence setting.

Alyssa G Burrows, Sophia Linton, Jenny Thiele, Prameet M Sheth, Gerald A Evans, Stephen Archer, Katharine M Doliszny, Marcia Finlayson, Leslie Flynn, Yun Huang and 11 more

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Article in Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alyssa G BurrowsDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Sophia LintonDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Jenny ThieleDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Prameet M ShethDepartment of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Gerald A EvansDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Stephen ArcherDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Katharine M DolisznyDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Marcia FinlaysonSchool of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Leslie FlynnFaculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Yun HuangPathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Azim KasmaniKingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health, Kingston, ON, Canada.
T Hugh GuanDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Allison MaierKingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Adrienne Hansen-TaugherKingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Kieran MooreKingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Anthony SanfilippoDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Erna Snelgrove-ClarkeFaculty of Health Sciences School of Nursing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Dean A TrippDepartment of Psychology, Anesthesia, Urology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
David M C WalkerDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Stephen VannerDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Anne K EllisDepartment of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. Anne.Ellis@kingstonhsc.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0725-2353
Queen's University · CAKingston Health Sciences Centre · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely impacted the training of health care professional students because of concerns of potential asymptomatic transmission to colleagues and vulnerable patients. From May 27th, 2020, to June 23rd 2021; at a time when B.1.1.7 (alpha) and B.1.617.2 (delta) were the dominant circulating variants, PCR testing was conducted on 1,237 nasopharyngeal swabs collected from 454 asymptomatic health care professional students as they returned to their studies from across Canada to Kingston, ON, a low prevalence area during that period for COVID-19. Despite 46.7% of COVID-19 infections occurring in the 18-29 age group in Kingston, severe-acute-respiratory coronavirus-2 was not detected in any of the samples suggesting that negligible asymptomatic infection occurred in this group and that PCR testing in this setting may not be warranted as a screening tool.

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Asymptomatic testingCOVID-19Health care professional studentsInfectious diseaseInfluenza a&bRespiratory syncytial virusRT-PCRScreening questionnaireYoung adults

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PMID36991486
PMCPMC10057685
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