作者
Alborz Rahmani, Guglielmo Dini, Veruscka Leso, Alfredo Montecucco, Bruno Kusznir Vitturi, Ivo Iavicoli, Paolo Durando
发表日期
2022
来源
La Medicina del lavoro
卷号
113
期号
2
出版商
Mattioli 1885
简介
Background:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, working age individuals have been implicated in sustaining the resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 infections, and multiple outbreaks have been observed in several occupational settings. In this regard, Occupational Physicians play a crucial role in the management of infected workers, particularly in the safe return-to-work of subjects after clinical resolution. To this end, knowledge of the duration of the infective phase in the working age population is essential, taking into account previous evidence suggesting that PCR positivity does not coincide with virus viability.
Methods:
A systematic review and meta-analysis, searching major scientific databases, including PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus and Web of Science, were performed in order to synthesize the available evidence regarding the mean and maximal duration of infectivity compared to the mean and maximal duration of viral …
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