? PUBBLICATO SU NATURE LO STUDIO DELL’UNIVERSITà DI PADOVA SUL CLUSTER DI VO’ EUGANEO ?

Un grande risultato quello raggiunto dal gruppo coordinato dal prof. Crisanti e a cui hanno collaborato anche degli studenti del nostro corso di medicina!

Si tratta infatti del primo studio operato su una coorte chiusa e monitorata durante tutto il periodo della quarantena con serie successive di tamponamenti.
I risultati rappresentano un importantissimo passo in avanti per la lotta al COVID, che da oggi conosciamo un po’ meglio.

Qui un abstract, ma vi invitiamo a leggere l’articolo completo:
“On the 21st of February 2020 a resident of the municipality of Vo’, a small town near Padua, died of pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 infection1. This was the first COVID-19 death detected in Italy since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province2. In response, the regional authorities imposed the lockdown of the whole municipality for 14 days3. We collected information on the demography, clinical presentation, hospitalization, contact network and presence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in nasopharyngeal swabs for 85.9% and 71.5% of the population of Vo’ at two consecutive time points. On the first survey, which was conducted around the time the town lockdown started, we found a prevalence of infection of 2.6% (95% confidence interval (CI) 2.1-3.3%). On the second survey, which was conducted at the end of the lockdown, we found a prevalence of 1.2% (95% Confidence Interval (CI) 0.8-1.8%). Notably, 42.5% (95% CI 31.5-54.6%) of the confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections detected across the two surveys were asymptomatic (i.e. did not have symptoms at the time of swab testing and did not develop symptoms afterwards). The mean serial interval was 7.2 days (95% CI 5.9-9.6). We found no statistically significant difference in the viral load of symptomatic versus asymptomatic infections (p-values 0.62 and 0.74 for E and RdRp genes, respectively, Exact Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test). This study sheds new light on the frequency of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, their infectivity (as measured by the viral load) and provides new insights into its transmission dynamics and the efficacy of the implemented control measures.”

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