1. SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among pediatric health care personnel after the first peak of the pandemic: nationwide surveillance in Turkey
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Halil Hatipoğlu, Nevin Hatipoğlu, İrem Yenidoğan, Aslıhan Şahin, Ayşe Büyükcam, Gizem Guner, Gülhadiye Avcu, Burcu Parıltan Küçükalioğlu, Murat Sütçü, Dicle Şener Okur, Yalçın Kara, Gökhan Akkuş, Sinem Oral Cebeci, Başak Yıldız Atikan, Ferda Ozkinay, Mustafa Hacimustafaoglu, Melike Emiroglu, Deniz Çakır, Zafer Kurugöl, Tuğçe Tural Kara, Seher Tekeli, Yasemin Akın, Ceren Çetin, Ayşe Karaaslan, Adem Karbuz, Emine Hafize Erdeniz, Gülsüm Alkan, Aysun Yahşi, Hazal Helin Doğan, Şerife Bahtiyar Oğuz, Bahadir Yazicioglu, Soner Sertan Kara, Rabia Çoban, Doruk Gül, Arife Özer, Musa Gürel Kukul, Hacer Aktürk, Asuman Demirbuğa, Hatice Uygun, Hüsnü Fahri Ovalı, Sibel Laçinel Gürlevik, Taha Özçelik, Habip Almiş, Habibe Selver Durmuş, Zümrüt Şahbudak Bal, Belma Yaşar, Ener Cagri Dinleyici, Zeynep Gökçe Gayretli Aydın, Sevliya Öcal Demir, Pembe Derin Oygar, Nazan Dalgic, Emel Çelebi, Sadık Sami Hatipoğlu, Tuğba Erat, İlyas Tolga Erkum, Ibrahim Hakan Bucak, Dilek Yılmaz Çiftdoğan, Mehmet Turgut, Didem Kizmaz Işançli, Benhur Şirvan Çetin, Hasan Tezer, Semra Şen, Sertac Arslanoglu, Tuğba Üstün, Omer Kilic, Edanur Yeşil, Ali Bülent Cengiz, Enes Sali, Sefika Elmas Bozdemir, Murat Elevli, Diclehan Çiftçi, Gülşen Akkoç, Ayper Somer, Yıldız Ekemen Keleş, Mehpare Sarı Yanartaş, Selda Hançerli Törün, Kadir Efe, Ateş Kara, Sadiye Kubra Tuter Oz, Cansu Turan, Özge Kaba, Melis Bilen, Solmaz Celebi, Emine Ergül Sarı, Lida Bülbül, Fatma Deniz Aygün, Burcugül Karasulu, İstinye Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Dahili Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü, Murat Sütçü / 0000-0002-2078-9796, Halil Uğur Hatipoğlu / 0000-0002-7393-677X, Doruk Gül / 0000-0003-2558-3719, Sütçü, Murat, Gül, Doruk, Hatipoğlu, Halil Uğur, Murat Sütçü / ABG-7336-2021, Doruk Gül / AGJ-2448-2022, Halil Uğur Hatipoğlu / AAR-7056-2020, Murat Sütçü / 55499199300, Doruk Gül / 57222108765, Halil Uğur Hatipoğlu / 56545443800, Aktürk, Hacer, Yenidoğan, İrem, Oygar, P.D., Büyükçam, A., Bal, Z.S., Dalgıç, N., Bozdemir, S.E., Karbuz, A., Çetin, B.S., Kara, Y., Çetin, C., Hatipoğlu, N., Uygun, H., Aygün, F.D., Torun, S.H., Okur, D.S., Çiftdoğan, D.Y., Kara, T.T., Yahşi, A., Özer, A., Demir, S.O., Akkoç, G., Turan, C., Salı, E., Şen, S., Erdeniz, E.H., Kara, S.S., Emiroğlu, M., Erat, T., Gürlevik, S.L., Sütçü, M., Aydın, Z.G.G., Atıkan, B.Y., Yeşil, E., Güner, G., Çelebi, E., Efe, K., İsançlı, D.K., Durmuş, H.S., Tekeli, S., Karaaslan, A., Bülbül, L., Almış, H., Kaba, O., Keleş, Y.E., Yazıcıoğlu, B., Oğuz, S.B., Ovalı, H.F., Doğan, H.H., Çelebi, S., Çakır, D., Karasulu, B., Alkan, G., Gül, D., Küçükalioğlu, B.P., Avcu, G., Kukul, M.G., Bilen, M., Yaşar, B., Üstün, T., Kılıç, O., Akın, Y., Cebeci, S.O., Buçak, I.H., Yanartaş, M.S., Şahin, A., Arslanoğlu, S., Elevli, M., Çoban, R., Öz, S.K.T., Hatipoğlu, H., Erkum, I.T., Turgut, M., Demirbuğa, A., Özçelik, T., Çiftci, D., Sarı E.E., Akkuş, G., Hatipoğlu, S.S., Dinleyici, E.Ç., Hacımustafaoğlu, M., Özkınay, F., Kurugöl, Z., Cengiz, A.B., Somer, A., Tezer, H., Kara, A., Koç University Hospital, and School of Medicine
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Microbiology (medical) ,personnel protective equipment use ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,health care personnel ,Transmission (medicine) ,business.industry ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,serology ,COVID-19 ,General Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 ,Infectious Diseases ,Environmental health ,Pandemic ,Health care ,Seroprevalence ,Medicine ,Infectious diseases ,business ,Personal protective equipment ,Health care personnel ,Serology ,Personnel protective equipment use ,Point of care - Abstract
Background: understanding SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among health care personnel is important to ex-plore risk factors for transmission, develop elimination strategies and form a view on the necessity and frequency of surveillance in the future. Methods: we enrolled 4927 health care personnel working in pediatric units at 32 hospitals from 7 different regions of Turkey in a study to determine SARS Co-V-2 seroprevalence after the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. A point of care serologic lateral flow rapid test kit for immunoglobulin (Ig)M/IgG was used. Seroprevalence and its association with demographic characteristics and possible risk factors were analyzed. Results: SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity prevalence in health care personnel tested was 6.1%. Seropositivity was more common among those who did not universally wear protective masks (10.6% vs 6.1%). Having a COVID-19-positive co-worker increased the likelihood of infection. The least and the most experienced personnel were more likely to be infected. Most of the seropositive health care personnel (68.0%) did not suspect that they had previously had COVID-19. Conclusions: health surveillance for health care personnel involving routine point-of-care nucleic acid testing and monitoring personal protective equipment adherence are suggested as important strategies to protect health care personnel from COVID-19 and reduce nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 transmission., NA
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- 2021