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Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2012 Jan 24. [Epub ahead of print]
Seroprevalence of antibodies to the influenza A (H1N1) virus among healthcare workers prior to the 2009 pandemic peak.
Olalla J, de Ory F, Casas I, Del Arco A, Montiel N, Rivas-Ruiz F, de la Torre J, Prada JL, Fern?ndez F, Garc?a-Alegr?a J; the MARBEGRIP Research Group.
Source
Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Spain; Biomedical Research Centre Network for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP).
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
Our aim was to study the proportion of healthcare workers with a positive serology for Influenza A(H1N1)2009 without having flu, in a Spanish hospital at the beginning of the pandemic.
METHODS:
A survey study carried out during August 2009 (before the peak of the pandemic in Spain) in the Hospital Costa del Sol, a second level hospital with almost 300 beds in the South of Spain. The participants were workers in the following hospital units: Emergencies, Medical Area (Internal Medicine, Chest Diseases), Surgical Area (General Surgery and Anaesthesia) of any professional category. A study was made of the proportion of healthcare workers in our hospital with positive serology for the new influenza A (H1N1)2009 virus, as determined by the haemagglutination inhibition technique (≥1/40). The subjects completed a health status questionnaire, and provided a blood sample for serology testing.
RESULTS:
A total of 239 workers participated, of whom 25.1% had positive serology. The hospital area in which most individuals had positive serology was the Emergency Department (36.6%), while the professional category in which most individuals with a positive serology worked was that of the orderlies (41.7%).
CONCLUSION:
Around 25% of healthcare workers in our hospital had positive serology before the peak of the pandemic, none of them had received vaccine for Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 or had been diagnosed of influenza previously.
Copyright ? 2011 Elsevier Espa?a, S.L. All rights reserved.
PMID:
22280561
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22280561
Seroprevalence of antibodies to the influenza A (H1N1) virus among healthcare workers prior to the 2009 pandemic peak.
Olalla J, de Ory F, Casas I, Del Arco A, Montiel N, Rivas-Ruiz F, de la Torre J, Prada JL, Fern?ndez F, Garc?a-Alegr?a J; the MARBEGRIP Research Group.
Source
Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Spain; Biomedical Research Centre Network for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP).
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
Our aim was to study the proportion of healthcare workers with a positive serology for Influenza A(H1N1)2009 without having flu, in a Spanish hospital at the beginning of the pandemic.
METHODS:
A survey study carried out during August 2009 (before the peak of the pandemic in Spain) in the Hospital Costa del Sol, a second level hospital with almost 300 beds in the South of Spain. The participants were workers in the following hospital units: Emergencies, Medical Area (Internal Medicine, Chest Diseases), Surgical Area (General Surgery and Anaesthesia) of any professional category. A study was made of the proportion of healthcare workers in our hospital with positive serology for the new influenza A (H1N1)2009 virus, as determined by the haemagglutination inhibition technique (≥1/40). The subjects completed a health status questionnaire, and provided a blood sample for serology testing.
RESULTS:
A total of 239 workers participated, of whom 25.1% had positive serology. The hospital area in which most individuals had positive serology was the Emergency Department (36.6%), while the professional category in which most individuals with a positive serology worked was that of the orderlies (41.7%).
CONCLUSION:
Around 25% of healthcare workers in our hospital had positive serology before the peak of the pandemic, none of them had received vaccine for Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 or had been diagnosed of influenza previously.
Copyright ? 2011 Elsevier Espa?a, S.L. All rights reserved.
PMID:
22280561
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22280561