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1. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a paucisymptomatic patient: epidemiological and clinical challenge in settings with limited community transmission, Italy, February 2020

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Licia Bordi, Nazario Bevilacqua, Angelo De Domenico, Luciana Lepore, Concetta Castiletti, Paolo Piredda, Giancarlo Petralito, Filippo Molinari, Silvia Fillo, Paola Scognamiglio, Fabrizio Carletti, Francesca Colavita, Diego Munzi, Francesco Vairo, Eleonora Lalle, Maria Letizia Giancola, Claudia Palazzolo, Angela Corpolongo, Simone Lanini, Riccardo De Santis, Raffaele Iacomino, Alessandra D'Abramo, Giovanni Faggioni, Nicola Petrosillo, Antonio Battistini, Giuseppe Ippolito, Andrea Mariano, Andrea Mone, Vincenzo Puro, Florigio Lista, Maria Spinelli, Laura Scorzolini, and Emanuele Nicastri

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Male, Pediatrics, Epidemiology, viruses, Disease, medicine.disease_cause, Antibodies, Viral, Feces, 0302 clinical medicine, COVID-19 Testing, Nasopharynx, Pandemic, 030212 general & internal medicine, skin and connective tissue diseases, Asymptomatic Infections, Lung, Coronavirus, Travel, biology, Transmission (medicine), virus diseases, Virus Shedding, Italy, Quarantine, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Radiography, Thoracic, Coronavirus Infections, Rapid Communication, medicine.medical_specialty, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Pneumonia, Viral, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, World Health Organization, 03 medical and health sciences, Betacoronavirus, Young Adult, Virology, medicine, Humans, Pandemics, business.industry, Clinical Laboratory Techniques, SARS-CoV-2, fungi, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, COVID-19, biology.organism_classification, body regions, paucisymptomatic case, Contact Tracing, business, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Contact tracing
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Data concerning the transmission of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in paucisymptomatic patients are lacking. We report an Italian paucisymptomatic case of coronavirus disease 2019 with multiple biological samples positive for SARS-CoV-2. This case was detected using the World Health Organization protocol on cases and contact investigation. Current discharge criteria and the impact of extra-pulmonary SARS-CoV-2 samples are discussed.

Published
2020

2. An outbreak of chickenpox in an asylum seeker centre in Italy: outbreak investigation and validity of reported chickenpox history, December 2015–May 2016

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Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Maurizio Lopalco, Maria Teresa Sinopoli, Saul Torchia, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Giuseppe Ippolito, Maria Cristina Serra, Vincenzo Panella, Francesco Vairo, Licia Bordi, Federica Ferraro, Sabrina Valle, Paola Scognamiglio, Virginia Di Bari, Giuseppe Quintavalle, and Vincenzo Puro

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Pediatrics, Epidemiology, Refugee, 030231 tropical medicine, Population, Surveillance and Outbreak Report, Disease Outbreaks, Chickenpox Vaccine, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, 0302 clinical medicine, varicella, Seroepidemiologic Studies, Virology, Medicine, Seroprevalence, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, education, Contraindication, chickenpox, education.field_of_study, Refugees, Travel, Chickenpox, Syria, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Outbreak, medicine.disease, Arabs, migrant, Italy, outbreaks, Africa, surveillance, Female, Disease Susceptibility, business, Asylum seeker
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An outbreak of chickenpox occurred between December 2015 and May 2016 among asylum seekers in a reception centre in Latium, Italy. We describe the epidemiological and laboratory investigations, control measures and validity of reported history of chickenpox infection. Serological screening of all residents and incoming asylum seekers was performed, followed by vaccine offer to all susceptible individuals without contraindication. Forty-six cases were found and 41 were associated with the outbreak. No complications, hospitalisations or deaths occurred. Serological testing was performed in 1,278 individuals and 169 were found to be susceptible, with a seroprevalence of 86.8%. A questionnaire was administered to 336 individuals consecutively attending the CARA health post to collect their serological result. The sensitivity, specificity and the positive and negative predictive value (PPV and NPV) of the reported history of chickenpox were 45.0%, 76.1%, 88.3% and 25.6%, respectively. We observed an increasing trend for the PPV and decreasing trend for the NPV with increasing age. Our report confirms that, in the asylum seeker population, chickenpox history is not the optimal method to identify susceptible individuals. Our experience supports the need for additional prevention and control measures and highlights the importance of national and local surveillance systems for reception centres.

Published
2017

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