COVID-19 seroprevalence among hospital staff and preprocedural patients in Thai community hospitals: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to explore the seroprevalence of hospital staff comparing to preprocedural patients in Thai community hospitals to shed light on the situation of COVID-19 infection of frontline healthcare workers in low infection rate countries where mass screening was not readily available.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

52 community hospitals in 35 provinces covered all regions of Thailand.

Participants

857 participants consisted of 675 hospital staff and 182 preprocedural patients.

Outcome measure

COVID-19 seroprevalence using a locally developed rapid IgM/IgG test kit RESULTS: Overall, 5.5% of the participants (47 of 857) had positive IgM, 0.2% (2 of 857) had positive IgG which both of them also had positive IgM. Hospitals located in the c

SUBMITTER: Nopsopon T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8559109 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature