No Traces of SARS-CoV-2 In Wounds of COVID-19 Positive Patients: A Pilot Study
Background This study was performed to investigate the presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in wounds of COVID-19 positive patients. Methods This is a single-center observational study. COVID-19 patients with wounds (traumatic/infective/surgical) were included in this study. Preoperative, intraoperative, o...
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| author | Sunil Gaba Gowtham Kampalli Kapil Goyal Vikas Suri Poonam Chauhan Shyam C. Meena Ankur Bhatnagar Mini P. Singh Ramesh K. Sharma |
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| description | Background This study was performed to investigate the presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in wounds of COVID-19 positive patients.
Methods This is a single-center observational study. COVID-19 patients with wounds (traumatic/infective/surgical) were included in this study. Preoperative, intraoperative, or postoperative specimens were collected and analyzed with real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) to know the presence of the virus.
Results A total of eight patients were included in this study. Eleven samples were collected (seven wound swabs, two peritoneal fluids, and two tissue specimens) and analyzed. None of the samples from the wound tested positive for the virus while they were tested positive for nasal swab taken simultaneously or within 3 days prior.
Conclusion The wounds of COVID-19 patients are considered negative and can be managed with routine wound precautions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-aa331c9ccd5644ee84b3999d521bb5182025-08-20T03:39:32ZengThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery0970-03581998-376X2020-10-01530339940110.1055/s-0040-1718852No Traces of SARS-CoV-2 In Wounds of COVID-19 Positive Patients: A Pilot StudySunil Gaba0Gowtham Kampalli1Kapil Goyal2Vikas Suri3Poonam Chauhan4Shyam C. Meena5Ankur Bhatnagar6Mini P. Singh7Ramesh K. Sharma8Department of Plastic Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Plastic Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Virology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Internal Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Virology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Anaesthesia, PGIMER, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Plastic Surgery, SGPGI, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaDepartment of Virology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, IndiaDepartment of Plastic Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, IndiaBackground This study was performed to investigate the presence of SARS-CoV-2 virus in wounds of COVID-19 positive patients. Methods This is a single-center observational study. COVID-19 patients with wounds (traumatic/infective/surgical) were included in this study. Preoperative, intraoperative, or postoperative specimens were collected and analyzed with real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) to know the presence of the virus. Results A total of eight patients were included in this study. Eleven samples were collected (seven wound swabs, two peritoneal fluids, and two tissue specimens) and analyzed. None of the samples from the wound tested positive for the virus while they were tested positive for nasal swab taken simultaneously or within 3 days prior. Conclusion The wounds of COVID-19 patients are considered negative and can be managed with routine wound precautions.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0040-1718852covid-19rrt-pcrwound swabsars-cov-2 virus |
| spellingShingle | Sunil Gaba Gowtham Kampalli Kapil Goyal Vikas Suri Poonam Chauhan Shyam C. Meena Ankur Bhatnagar Mini P. Singh Ramesh K. Sharma No Traces of SARS-CoV-2 In Wounds of COVID-19 Positive Patients: A Pilot Study Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery covid-19 rrt-pcr wound swab sars-cov-2 virus |
| title | No Traces of SARS-CoV-2 In Wounds of COVID-19 Positive Patients: A Pilot Study |
| title_full | No Traces of SARS-CoV-2 In Wounds of COVID-19 Positive Patients: A Pilot Study |
| title_fullStr | No Traces of SARS-CoV-2 In Wounds of COVID-19 Positive Patients: A Pilot Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | No Traces of SARS-CoV-2 In Wounds of COVID-19 Positive Patients: A Pilot Study |
| title_short | No Traces of SARS-CoV-2 In Wounds of COVID-19 Positive Patients: A Pilot Study |
| title_sort | no traces of sars cov 2 in wounds of covid 19 positive patients a pilot study |
| topic | covid-19 rrt-pcr wound swab sars-cov-2 virus |
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