Airborne SARS-CoV-2 RNA detected during deliveries with unmasked patients
Thuresson, Sara LU ; Alsved, Malin LU
; Leijonhufvud, Åsa
LU
; Herbst, Andreas
LU
; Medstrand, Patrik
LU
; Löndahl, Jakob
LU
and Fraenkel, Carl-Johan
LU
(2024)
In Infection Prevention in Practice
6(4).
- Abstract
- Background: Healthcare workers in obstetric clinics may be exposed to airborne SARS-
CoV-2 when treating patients with COVID-19.
Method: In this study, performed during the midst of the pandemic, air samples were
collected in delivery rooms during childbirth and analysed for SARS-CoV-2 RNA content.
Result: Six of 28 samples collected inside delivery rooms were positive for SARS-CoV-2, but none in anterooms or corridors. Five of the six positive samples were from the same occasion.
Discussion: This indicates that some patients could be major sources of exhaled virus,
although the individual variation is large, and it is thus difficult to predict the risk of
infection.
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- author
- Thuresson, Sara
LU
; Alsved, Malin
LU
; Leijonhufvud, Åsa
LU
; Herbst, Andreas
LU
; Medstrand, Patrik
LU
; Löndahl, Jakob
LU
and Fraenkel, Carl-Johan
LU
- organization
-
- Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology
- LTH Profile Area: Aerosols
- Metalund
- NanoLund: Centre for Nanoscience
- MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
- Clinical Sciences, Helsingborg
- Valid IntraPartum Surveillance and Interventions to make Pregnancy Safe (research group)
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Lund)
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
- Clinical Virology, Malmö (research group)
- Teachers at the Medical Programme
- Infection Medicine (BMC)
- publishing date
- 2024-08-17
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- SARS-CoV-2, Aerosols, Childbirth, COVID-19
- in
- Infection Prevention in Practice
- volume
- 6
- issue
- 4
- article number
- 100389
- pages
- 3 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85202924061
- ISSN
- 2590-0889
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.infpip.2024.100389
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 80a17a76-f3f0-45f3-b1f2-086d1643b62c
- date added to LUP
- 2024-09-12 10:12:13
- date last changed
- 2024-09-18 10:24:55
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author = {{Thuresson, Sara and Alsved, Malin and Leijonhufvud, Åsa and Herbst, Andreas and Medstrand, Patrik and Löndahl, Jakob and Fraenkel, Carl-Johan}},
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doi = {{10.1016/j.infpip.2024.100389}},
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