Back to Search
Start Over
Evaluation of SARS Cov-2 disease epidemiology, clinical and diagnostic profile-a regional study from tertiary care center of North India
- Source :
- Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, Vol 15, Iss 3, Pp 3-8 (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, 2024.
-
Abstract
- Background: A novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARSCoV-2) that emerged in China in December 2019 has spread rapidly globally to many countries including India and World Health Organization declared it as a pandemic on March 11th, 2020. Aims and Objectives: The current study endeavors to determine the SARS-CoV-2 positivity rate as well as epidemiological, clinical, and diagnostic profiles from the second wave. Materials and Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of all suspected COVID-19 cases from January 2021 to October 2021 presenting at a large testing center for SARS-CoV-2 infection by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Descriptive analysis has been performed for profiling of clinical-epidemiological aspects of suspected cases. Results: A total of 694427 participants were enrolled during the study from January 2021 to October 2021. Overall RT-PCR positivity rate was found to be 1.7% in the year 2021 and the positivity was maximum in April 2021 which represents the second wave of COVID-19 infection in India. In the study population, more than half (57.07%) of the persons screened for COVID-19 infection were between 21 and 40 years of age, and about two-thirds (65.20%) of the persons screened were male followed by 34.79% were female. Conclusions: SARS-CoV-2 poses a high burden of infections in the community. Males had a higher RT-PCR detection rate as compared to females. The younger age group (80 years) expressed the highest positivity rate.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 24679100 and 20910576
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Asian Journal of Medical Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.9eac01aa4384e76823dce4244369d07
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v15i3.60337