Nurse infected with Covid-19 from a provisional dengue patient
ABSTRACTWe report a 35-year-old female nurse who possibly received the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the blood sampling of a 35-year-old male patient initially suspected as a dengue infection. The patient had mild thrombocytopenia and positive dengue IgG and IgM whereas the clinicians were not aware of th...
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| author | Wisit Prasitsirikul Krit Pongpirul Wannarat A. Pongpirul Nayot Panitantum Anuttra C. Ratnarathon Thiravat Hemachudha |
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| description | ABSTRACTWe report a 35-year-old female nurse who possibly received the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the blood sampling of a 35-year-old male patient initially suspected as a dengue infection. The patient had mild thrombocytopenia and positive dengue IgG and IgM whereas the clinicians were not aware of the possibility of false-positive dengue serology revealed in the published case report from Singapore. The nurse put on a pair of gloves but did not wear a mask during the only encounter with this patient. This nosocomial transmission raised a safety concern among healthcare professionals in an area with a relatively low Covid-19 prevalence, especially when the clinical and laboratory characteristics could be confused with other viral infections. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-afb87217442b40b29a0bf70c16c5a71c2024-03-11T16:04:24ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEmerging Microbes and Infections2222-17512020-01-01911354135510.1080/22221751.2020.1775131Nurse infected with Covid-19 from a provisional dengue patientWisit Prasitsirikul0Krit Pongpirul1Wannarat A. Pongpirul2Nayot Panitantum3Anuttra C. Ratnarathon4Thiravat Hemachudha5Department of Disease Control, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, Nonthaburi, ThailandDepartment of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, ThailandDepartment of Disease Control, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, Nonthaburi, ThailandDepartment of Disease Control, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, Nonthaburi, ThailandDepartment of Disease Control, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute, Nonthaburi, ThailandThai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Centre, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training on Viral Zoonoses, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, ThailandABSTRACTWe report a 35-year-old female nurse who possibly received the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the blood sampling of a 35-year-old male patient initially suspected as a dengue infection. The patient had mild thrombocytopenia and positive dengue IgG and IgM whereas the clinicians were not aware of the possibility of false-positive dengue serology revealed in the published case report from Singapore. The nurse put on a pair of gloves but did not wear a mask during the only encounter with this patient. This nosocomial transmission raised a safety concern among healthcare professionals in an area with a relatively low Covid-19 prevalence, especially when the clinical and laboratory characteristics could be confused with other viral infections.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22221751.2020.1775131Covid-19SARS-CoV-2denguenosocomial infectionpersonal protective equipment |
| spellingShingle | Wisit Prasitsirikul Krit Pongpirul Wannarat A. Pongpirul Nayot Panitantum Anuttra C. Ratnarathon Thiravat Hemachudha Nurse infected with Covid-19 from a provisional dengue patient Emerging Microbes and Infections Covid-19 SARS-CoV-2 dengue nosocomial infection personal protective equipment |
| title | Nurse infected with Covid-19 from a provisional dengue patient |
| title_full | Nurse infected with Covid-19 from a provisional dengue patient |
| title_fullStr | Nurse infected with Covid-19 from a provisional dengue patient |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nurse infected with Covid-19 from a provisional dengue patient |
| title_short | Nurse infected with Covid-19 from a provisional dengue patient |
| title_sort | nurse infected with covid 19 from a provisional dengue patient |
| topic | Covid-19 SARS-CoV-2 dengue nosocomial infection personal protective equipment |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22221751.2020.1775131 |
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