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Editorial
. 2020 May 13:36:100694.
doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100694. eCollection 2020 Jul.

Report of five nurses infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 during patient care: case series

A Gheysarzadeh  1   2 , N Sadeghifard  3 , M Safari  4 , F Balavandi  5 , S Falahi  6 , A Kenarkoohi  7 , H Tavan  8
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Editorial

Report of five nurses infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 during patient care: case series

A Gheysarzadeh et al. New Microbes New Infect. .

Abstract

The high prevalence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has received much attention all over the world. Nurses are in the first line of defence against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and are placed in a high-risk situation. This study aimed to report on infection with SARS-CoV-2 during patient care among nures in the Mostafa Khomini Hospital, Ilam, Iran. In this hospital 125 nurses were enrolled in the COVID-19 centre. Five out of 125 nurses (4%) who enrolled in the COVID-19 infection centre, developed COVID-19. They were first positive by real-time PCR but the CT scan was positive for only one of them. None of the infected nurses were hospitalized and all of them preferred to quarantine at home and receive the necessary care and treatment (oseltamivir, azithromycin and lopinavir/ritonavir). This study showed that, regardless of self caring, the nurses were exposed to the virus, because at the start of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Iran, there was no special protection against this infection, so the nurses were placed at risk. This study also reported that receiving the necessary care and treatment at home was a good experience for nurses and can be used in some cases.

Keywords: Coronavirus disease 2019; Covid-19; SARS-CoV-2; infection; nurse.

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The high-resolution CT scans of nurses. (a–d) Normal lung CT scans. (e, f) Both related to one nurse, show small air space consolidation with faint peripheral ground-glass infiltrates in posterobasal segment of the right lower lobe.
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