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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 40, Issue 7, Pages 1579-1582Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-020-04127-9
Keywords
Homeless; Respiratory pathogen carriage; PCR; Seasonal variations; Respiratory symptoms; Fever
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- French Government under the Investissements d'avenir (Investments for the Future) program
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The study compared respiratory pathogen carriage in sheltered homeless people in Marseille during three different time periods in 2020. It found that the overall prevalence was highest in late March-early April, with a significant decrease in bacterial carriage between different time periods. SARS-CoV-2 was mainly detected in late March-early April samples.
We aimed to compare respiratory pathogen carriage by PCR during three different time periods in 2020 in sheltered homeless people in Marseille, France. The overall prevalence of respiratory pathogen carriage in late March-early April (69.9%) was significantly higher than in late April (42.3%) and mid-July (45.1%). Bacterial carriage significantly decreased between late March-early April and late April. SARS-CoV-2 was detected only in late March-early April samples (20.6%). Measures aiming at mitigating SARS-CoV-2 transmission were effective and also impacted bacterial carriage. Seasonal variations of bacterial carriage between winter and summer in this population were not marked.
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