Universal SARS-CoV-2 testing on admission to the labor and delivery unit: Low prevalence among asymptomatic obstetric patients

Ilona Telefus Goldfarb; Khady Diouf; William H Barth; Julian N Robinson; Daniel Katz; Katherine E Gregory; Andrea Ciaranello; Sigal Yawetz; Erica S Shenoy; Michael Klompas

doi:10.1017/ice.2020.255

Universal SARS-CoV-2 testing on admission to the labor and delivery unit: Low prevalence among asymptomatic obstetric patients

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Sep;41(9):1095-1096. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.255. Epub 2020 May 27.

Authors

Ilona Telefus Goldfarb^{1

2}, Khady Diouf^{1

3}, William H Barth^{1

2}, Julian N Robinson^{1

3}, Daniel Katz^{1

3

4}, Katherine E Gregory^{1

5}, Andrea Ciaranello^{1

6}, Sigal Yawetz^{1

7}, Erica S Shenoy^#^{1

6

8}, Michael Klompas^#^{1

7}

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Newton Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts.
⁵ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Nursing and Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁸ Infection Control Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Asymptomatic Infections
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
Boston / epidemiology
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Clinical Laboratory Techniques / methods*
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Female
Humans
Mass Screening / methods*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / diagnosis*
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / epidemiology
Prevalence
SARS-CoV-2