Bibliographic citations
Musayón, E., (2022). ¿Varía la positividad de hisopado nasofaríngeo por RT-PCR para SARS-CoV-2 según el tiempo de enfermedad por grupos etarios? [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/12089
Musayón, E., ¿Varía la positividad de hisopado nasofaríngeo por RT-PCR para SARS-CoV-2 según el tiempo de enfermedad por grupos etarios? []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/12089
@misc{renati/910413,
title = "¿Varía la positividad de hisopado nasofaríngeo por RT-PCR para SARS-CoV-2 según el tiempo de enfermedad por grupos etarios?",
author = "Musayón Bryson, Esdras Ismael",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2022"
}
Background: It is necessary to know the positivity of COVID-19 tests to generate adequate public health measures. Objective: The objective is to evaluate the proportion of positive molecular tests for SARS-CoV-2 taken during April-November 2020 in Mexican adults with suspected COVID-19 infection according to the time of illness. Methods: Open data was collected from 1,969,006 patients with suspected COVID-19 infection from the April-November 2020 registry. The percentage of positivity was evaluated in three age groups (20-40, 40-60, >60 years) according to the presence or not of pneumonia and the place of patient management. Logistic regressions were performed to evaluate factors associated with positivity on the third day of symptoms. Results: The results showed that 29.4% had a positive RT-PCR on the first day of symptoms and that the highest percentage of positivity in all patients occurred on the ninth day (56.6%). Age (OR 1.08, 95% CI 1.07-1.09), female gender (OR 0.93, 95% CI 0.92-0.93), being a COVID-19 contact (OR 0.96, 95% CI 0.95-0.96), and having a risk factor (OR 0.96, 95% CI 0.96-0.97) were associated with positivity on the third day of illness. Conclusions: Less than a third of COVID-19 suspects had a positive molecular test on the first day of symptoms. We observed a higher positivity of the molecular test according to a longer time of disease and age of the patient. The age, being female, the presence of a COVID-19 contact, and having a risk factor was associated with a positive test.
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