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oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:1005...

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Short Report
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Burrows, Alyssa G. Linton, Sophia Thiele, Jenny Sheth, Prameet M. Evans, Gerald A. Archer, Stephen Doliszny, Katharine M. Finlayson, Marcia Flynn, Leslie Huang, Yun Kasmani, Azim Hugh Guan, T. Maier, Allison Hansen-Taugher, Adrienne Moore, Kieran Sanfilippo, Anthony Snelgrove-Clarke, Erna Tripp, Dean A. Walker, David M. C. Vanner, Stephen Ellis, Anne K.
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en
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BioMed Central

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Allergy, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology : Official Journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Year

2023

listing date

9/22/2023

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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.

Burrows, Alyssa G.,Linton, Sophia,Thiele, Jenny,Sheth, Prameet M.,Evans, Gerald A.,Archer, Stephen,Doliszny, Katharine M.,Finlayson, Marcia,Flynn, Leslie,Huang, Yun,Kasmani, Azim,Hugh Guan, T.,Maier, Allison,Hansen-Taugher, Adrienne,Moore, Kieran,Sanfilippo, Anthony,Snelgrove-Clarke, Erna,Tripp, Dean A.,Walker, David M. C.,Vanner, Stephen,Ellis, Anne K., 2023, Asymptomatic surveillance testing for COVID-19 in health care professional students: lessons learned from a low prevalence setting, BioMed Central

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