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. 2022 Jun 19:15:11786361221097680.
doi: 10.1177/11786361221097680. eCollection 2022.

Prevalence of the Clinical Symptoms and PCR Test Results on Patients With COVID-19 in South of Tehran

Rahimkhani Monireh  1 , Kazemian Kiana  2
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Prevalence of the Clinical Symptoms and PCR Test Results on Patients With COVID-19 in South of Tehran

Rahimkhani Monireh et al. Microbiol Insights. .

Abstract

Background: The first human case of COVID-19 was reported on 19 February 2020 in Iran, since then the number of infected cases has dramatically increased to about 1.800 million and about 62 000 deaths, also elderly people have accounted for the largest frequency of mortality.

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the prevalence of Covid-19 RT-PCR positive among Iranian patients and to evaluate the most important clinical symptoms of identified patients based on age, gender, and their background diseases to be used as an aid for early diagnosis.

Methods: During 9 months, swab samples of 11 034 patients' nasopharynx and oropharynx secretions were obtained and were referred to the laboratory for Covid-19 RT-PCR test. In addition, the history of signs and symptoms from patients was recorded.

Results: In total, 11 034 Covid-19 RT-PCR tests that performed, 3358 samples had positive results (30.4%). Headache was the most commonly reported, which was found in 42.5% of our cases. Fever was the second most common symptom among the patients studied, with a prevalence rate of 36.2%.

Conclusion: In this study, almost 30% of symptomatic patients had positive Covid-19 RT-PCR test results. Headache was the most common symptom; also diarrhea and nausea were the least common symptoms among patients under this study.

Keywords: COVID-19; RT-PCR; coronavirus; prevalence; symptoms.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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