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D045169 | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome NIH | 0.05 |
D018352 | Coronavirus Infections NIH | 0.04 |
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There is one clinical trial.
Healthcare workers play a critical role in fighting the pandemic, not only by managing the patients' health clinically, but also by implementing adequate measures for infection prevention and control in healthcare facilities. This puts healthcare workers at a greater risk of acquiring the disease. COVID-19 is caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus -2 (SARS-CoV-2) and many people can be infected with it asymptomatically and undetectably. Serology is an antibody test that provides additional information to polymerase chain-reaction (PCR) testing as it is the only way to reliably establish the fraction of the population that was infected . Seroconversion is the development of antibodies in the blood which can confirm suspected cases after the fact and reveal who was infected but asymptomatic and never realized it. Antibodies are specific proteins created as the body's response to the infection and this test is essential for detecting infected individuals with few or no symptoms at all.
Description: Percentage of health care workers with positive serological markers to describe patterns in exposure, re-infection, clinical symptom, serological responses among health care workers based on their baseline serological status over a one year period.
Measure: Seroconversion status Time: 6 MonthsDescription: Seroconversion without clinical manifestation (fever, body aches, headache, sweating, chills + respiratory symptoms (cough dyspnea, sputum) or digestive (nausea / vomiting diarrhea abdominal pain)
Measure: The proportion of asymptomatic infections among staff who have seroconverted Time: 6 MonthsDescription: To identify the durability of antibody seroconversion
Measure: The durability of COVID 19 seroconversion in asymptomatic healthcare workers at JHAH Time: 6 MonthsDescription: Age, gender, type of staff, resources
Measure: Identification of risk factors for COVID 19 seroconversion in asymptomatic healthcare workers Time: 6 Months