Asymptomatic surveillance testing for COVID-19 in health care professional students : lessons learned from a low prevalence setting
Asymptomatic surveillance testing for COVID-19 in health care professional students : lessons learned from a low prevalence setting
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- dc.contributor.author
- 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
- Guan, T. Hugh
- Maier, Allison
- Hansen-Taugher, Adrienne
- Moore, Kieran
- Sanfilippo, Anthony
- Snelgrove-Clarke, Erna
- Tripp, Dean A.
- Walker, David M. C.
- Vanner, Stephen
- Ellis, Anne K.
- dc.date.accessioned
- 2025-01-24T21:30:17Z
- dc.date.available
- 2025-01-24T21:30:17Z
- dc.date.issued
- 2023-03-29
- dc.description.abstract - en
- 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.
- dc.description.sponsorship
- This project was supported by funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada, through the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force. Additional funding was recieved from Queen’s University Vice President Research, Queen’s University Department of Medicine Research Award- CIHR Pillar, Queen’s Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine and School of Nursing.
- dc.identifier.doi
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13223-023-00769-4
- dc.identifier.issn
- 1710-1492
- dc.identifier.pubmedID
- 36991486
- dc.identifier.uri
- https://open-science.canada.ca/handle/123456789/3356
- dc.language.iso
- en
- dc.publisher - en
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- dc.rights - en
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- dc.rights - fr
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- dc.rights.uri - en
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- dc.rights.uri - fr
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fr
- dc.subject - en
- Health
- Coronavirus diseases
- Testing
- dc.subject - fr
- Santé
- Maladie à coronavirus
- Test
- dc.subject.en - en
- Health
- Coronavirus diseases
- Testing
- dc.subject.fr - fr
- Santé
- Maladie à coronavirus
- Test
- dc.title - en
- Asymptomatic surveillance testing for COVID-19 in health care professional students : lessons learned from a low prevalence setting
- dc.type - en
- Article
- dc.type - fr
- Article
- local.acceptedmanuscript.articlenum
- 25
- local.article.journaltitle - en
- Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology
- local.article.journalvolume
- 19
- local.pagination
- 1-6
- local.peerreview - en
- Yes
- local.peerreview - fr
- Oui
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