Tséhootsooí Medical Center, Fort Defiance, AZ, USA.
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Am J Clin Pathol. 2022 Apr 1;157(4):498-501. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqab170.
Hantavirus is endemic in the Four Corners region of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) disproportionately affects the Navajo Nation. We describe the application of a rapid screening tool for identification of HCPS.
A rapid screening tool for HCPS was implemented at Tséhootsooí Medical Center (TMC) in collaboration with academic partners.
Since its implementation in 2016, 20 TMC staff members have been trained to perform this test, and 189 screens for HCPS have been reported. Although hantavirus infection is rare even in high-risk areas, use of this tool resulted in the identification of 4 acute cases of hantavirus infection.
The results demonstrate the successful implementation of a 5-point screening tool for hantavirus infection in an endemic setting by a laboratory in a small community hospital.
汉坦病毒在地处于亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州、新墨西哥州和犹他州的“四角地区”流行，汉坦病毒心肺综合征（HCPS）在纳瓦霍族地区的发病率不成比例地高。我们描述了一种用于识别 HCPS 的快速筛选工具的应用。
Tséhootsooí 医疗中心（TMC）与学术合作伙伴合作，实施了一种用于 HCPS 的快速筛选工具。
自 2016 年实施以来，已有 20 名 TMC 工作人员接受了该测试的培训，报告了 189 例 HCPS 筛查。尽管即使在高风险地区汉坦病毒感染也很少见，但使用该工具还是确定了 4 例急性汉坦病毒感染病例。
结果表明，在一个小社区医院的实验室中，成功实施了一种用于流行地区汉坦病毒感染的 5 点筛查工具。
