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- Title
SARS-CoV-2 y RT-PCR en pacientes asintomáticos: resultados de una cohorte de trabajadores del Aeropuerto Internacional El Dorado de Bogotá, 2020.
- Authors
Malagón-Rojas, Jeadran; Gómez-Rendón, Claudia; Parra, Eliana L.; Almentero, Julia; Palma, Ruth; López, Ronald; Toloza-Pérez, Yesith Guillermo; Rubio, Vivian; Bedoya, Juan Felipe; López-Díaz, Fernando; Franco-Muñoz, Carlos; Reales-González, Jhonnatan; Mercado, Marcela
- Abstract
Introduction: The 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has caused around 25 million cases worldwide. Asymptomatic patients have been described as potential sources of transmission. However, there are difficulties to detect them and to establish their role in the dynamics of virus transmission, which hinders the implementation of prevention strategies. Objective: To describe the behavior of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in a cohort of workers at the El Dorado "Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento" International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia. Materials and methods: A prospective cohort of 212 workers from the El Dorado airport was designed. The follow-up began in June, 2020. A survey was used to characterize health and work conditions. Every 21 day, a nasopharyngeal swab was taken to identify the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using RT-PCR. We analyzed the behavior of the cycle threshold (ORF1ab and N genes) according to the day of follow-up. Results: In the first three follow-ups of the cohort, we found an incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection of 16.51%. The proportion of positive contacts was 14.08%. The median threshold for cycle threshold was 33.53. Conclusion: We characterized the asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in a cohort of workers. The identification of asymptomatic infected persons continues to be a challenge for epidemiological surveillance systems.
- Subjects
BOGOTA (Colombia); SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19 pandemic; VIRUS diseases; REVERSE transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; COVID-19
- Publication
Biomédica: Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2020, Vol 40, p166
- ISSN
0120-4157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7705/biomedica.5802