Agrupis Kristal An, Villanueva Annavi Marie G, Sayo Ana Ria, Lazaro Jezreel, Han Su Myat, Celis Alyannah C, Suzuki Shuichi, Uichanco Ann Celestyn, Sagurit Jocelyn, Solante Rontgene, Yoshida Lay-Myint, Ariyoshi Koya, Smith Chris
San Lazaro Hospital, Nagasaki University Collaborative Research Office, Manila 1003, Philippines.
School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8102, Japan.
Trop Med Infect Dis. 2021 Mar 19;6(1):39. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed6010039.
The COVID-19 global pandemic is entering its second year. In this short report we present additional results as a supplement to our previous paper on COVID-19 and common respiratory virus screening for healthcare workers (HCWs) in a tertiary infectious disease referral hospital in Manila, Philippines. We sought to understand what etiologic agents could explain the upper/lower respiratory tract infection-like (URTI/LRTI-like) symptoms exhibited by 88% of the 324 HCWs tested. Among the patients who had URTI/LRTI-like symptoms, only seven (2%) were positive for COVID-19, while 38 (13%) of the symptomatic participants were identified positive for another viral etiologic agent. Rhinovirus was the most common infection, with 21 (9%) of the symptomatic participants positive for rhinovirus. Based on these results, testing symptomatic HCWs for common respiratory illnesses in addition to COVID-19 should be considered during this time of global pandemic.
新冠疫情全球大流行已进入第二年。在本简短报告中，我们展示了更多结果，作为我们之前关于菲律宾马尼拉一家三级传染病转诊医院医护人员新冠病毒及常见呼吸道病毒筛查论文的补充。我们试图了解哪些病原体可以解释在接受检测的324名医护人员中，88%出现的上/下呼吸道感染样（URTI/LRTI样）症状。在有URTI/LRTI样症状的患者中，只有7人（2%）新冠病毒检测呈阳性，而38名有症状的参与者（13%）被确定感染了另一种病毒病原体。鼻病毒是最常见的感染病原体，21名有症状的参与者（9%）鼻病毒检测呈阳性。基于这些结果，在全球大流行期间，除了新冠病毒检测外，还应考虑对有症状的医护人员进行常见呼吸道疾病检测。
