Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seroprevalence among laboratory staff: Safe handling of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) samples

The protection of healthcare workers (HCWs) is a critical point for pandemic control, at an individual level for care continuity and at a collective scale to avoid transmission to their contact cases.1 Guidelines for respiratory- or stool-sample handling have recommended wearing filtering facepiece...

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Published in:Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2022-11, Vol.43 (11), p.1738-1740
Main Authors: Hartard, Cedric, Agrinier, Nelly, Franck, Patricia, Prin-Mathieu, Christine, Debourgogne, Anne, Venard, Veronique, Schvoerer, Evelyne, Jeulin, Hélène
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Data collection
Disease transmission
Epidemics
Hemophilia
Immunology
Information technology
Laboratories
Letter to the Editor
Life Sciences
Microbiology
Occupational exposure
Pandemics
Pharmacology
Protective equipment
Serology
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
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Summary:The protection of healthcare workers (HCWs) is a critical point for pandemic control, at an individual level for care continuity and at a collective scale to avoid transmission to their contact cases.1 Guidelines for respiratory- or stool-sample handling have recommended wearing filtering facepiece respirator 2 (FFP-2) mask, double pairs of gloves, and a disposable gown. The following clinical and epidemiological data were collected: year of birth, sex, department within the laboratory (ie, hematology, microbiology, reproductive biology, human leukocyte antigen typing, immunology, molecular microbiology, cytometry, emergency analyses, reception and dispatching, automated analyses, genetic, pharmacology, biochemistry, point-of-care supervision, information technology support, management, environmental biology, biopathology, cleaning, and hemophilia center), and exposure to sample triple packaging or to respiratory and stool samples, exposure to a confirmed or suspected COVID-19 case (in a professional or personal context). The benefit of correct use of personal protective equipment was also observed in HCWs, even in the most exposed groups.7 Despite the small size of the cohort and of self-reporting data collection, the work presented here originally targets SARS-CoV-2–exposed laboratory staff.
ISSN:0899-823X
1559-6834
1559-6834
DOI:10.1017/ice.2021.334