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Case Reports
. 2020 Nov;50(8):748-750.
doi: 10.1016/j.medmal.2020.04.020. Epub 2020 May 4.

Limited effectiveness of systematic screening by nasopharyngeal RT-PCR of medicalized nursing home staff after a first case of COVID-19 in a resident

R Guery  1 , C Delaye  2 , N Brule  3 , V Nael  3 , L Castain  4 , F Raffi  2 , L De Decker  5
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Case Reports

Limited effectiveness of systematic screening by nasopharyngeal RT-PCR of medicalized nursing home staff after a first case of COVID-19 in a resident

R Guery et al. Med Mal Infect. 2020 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Health worker; Medicalized nursing home.

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Thoracic computed tomography (CT) scanner (transverse computed axial) of index resident case. An 80-year-old woman with fever and shortness of breath. CT scan showed ground glass opacities with septal thickening representing a “crazy paving” pattern that predominates in peripheral lung fields (degree of lung involvement between 25% and 50%) highly suggestive of COVID-19. Tomodensitométrie du thorax (coupe transversale, fenêtre parenchymateuse). Patiente de 80 ans avec dyspnée fébrile et désaturation. Interprétation : plages de verre dépoli associées à des lignes septales apicales et du crazy paving à prédominance périphérique et lobaire évoquant en première intention une pneumopathie à Covid-19 (degré d’atteinte évalué entre 25 et 50 %).
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