Body temperature screening to identify SARS-CoV-2 infected young adult travellers is ineffective
| Autor: | Jeremy W. Deuel, Giovanni Andrea Gerardo Crameri, Thomas Werner Buehrer, Patricia Schlagenhauf, Michel Bielecki |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, Deuel, Jeremy Werner |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus Disease-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Fever Temperature screening Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 030231 tropical medicine 610 Medicine & health Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Returning travelers Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Young adult Letter to the Editor business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 10060 Epidemiology Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (EBPI) 2739 Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health 2725 Infectious Diseases Virology Infectious Diseases Screening business human activities severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 |
| Zdroj: | Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease Tropical Medicine and Health |
| Popis: | On Thursday, 30 January 2020, World Health Organization declared Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-2019) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Since its identification in late December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China, the number of cases imported into other countries is increasing, and the epidemiological map is changing rapidly. On the other hand, body temperature screening (fever) is the major test performed at points of entry, i.e., airports, in the returning travelers in most of the countries with limited resources. However, the recent report on asymptomatic contact transmission of COVID-19 and travelers who passed the symptoms-based screening and tested positive for COVID-19 using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) challenges this approach as body temperature screening may miss travelers incubating the disease or travelers concealing fever during travel. On this note, travel restrictions to and from high risk areas and/or 14 days quarantine of travelers coming from high risk areas are recommended to prevent possible importation of COVID-19. Currently, RT-PCR is a reliable test in detecting both symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19. |
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