The risk of cytomegalovirus infection in daycare workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis
| Autor: | Andreas Seidler, Stefanie Schmauder, Karla Romero Starke, Melanie Schubert, Daniel Kämpf, Marlen Kofahl, Albert Nienhaus, Johanna Stranzinger, Mascha Luisa Groß, Janice Hegewald, Alice Freiberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Adult
Population MEDLINE Occupational disease Cytomegalovirus 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Seroepidemiologic Studies Occupational Exposure Environmental health Prevalence medicine Humans Seroprevalence 030212 general & internal medicine Seroconversion education education.field_of_study business.industry Risk of infection Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Child Day Care Centers medicine.disease 030210 environmental & occupational health Child Preschool Meta-analysis Cytomegalovirus Infections School Teachers business Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. 93:11-28 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1246 0340-0131 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00420-019-01464-x |
| Popis: | The primary aim of this review was to summarize the evidence on the relationship between being a daycare worker working with children and the possible increased risk of cytomegalovirus infection. We searched the Medline and Embase databases using search strings defined according to the population, exposure, comparison, and outcomes (PECO) applicable to our research questions in order to find studies published since 2000. Two independent reviewers evaluated the search hits using predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. A manual search was performed to identify additional relevant literature. We extracted the resulting studies and assessed them in eight domains of bias. The pooled CMV seroprevalence for daycare workers compared to the general population was calculated. After evaluating the 6879 records, six methodologically adequate studies were identified: five cross-sectional studies and one cohort study. The pooled seroprevalence of daycare workers was 59.3% (95% CI 47.6–70.9). The four studies investigating risk of infection indicated an increased seroprevalence for daycare workers compared to a reference population (prevalence ratio, PR = 1.54, 95% CI 1.33–1.77). No study evaluated CMV seroconversions for daycare workers. Our findings suggest a higher CMV seroprevalence for daycare workers compared to the general population. Notwithstanding the need for longitudinal and intervention studies, preventative efforts are needed. A pooled PR of 1.54 is compatible with a doubled seroconversion risk corresponding to a vocational probability of 50% if the substantial underestimation of the actual occupational seroconversion risk by prevalence-based estimators is considered. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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