Active Surveillance of Asymptomatic, Presymptomatic, and Oligosymptomatic SARS-CoV-2-Infected Individuals in Communities Inhabiting Closed or Semi-closed Institutions

AMBROSIS, NICOLÁS; MARTIN AISPURO, PABLO; BELHART, KEILA; BOTTERO, DANIELA; CRISP, RENÉE LEONOR; DANSEY, MARÍA VIRGINIA; GABRIELLI, MAGALI; FILEVICH, OSCAR; GENOUD, VALERIA; GIORDANO, ALEJANDRA; LIN, MIN CHIH; LODEIRO, ANIBAL; MARCECA, FELIPE; PREGI, NICOLÁS; LENICOV, FEDERICO REMES; ROCHA-VIEGAS, LUCIANA; RUDI, ERIKA; SOLOVEY, GUILLERMO; ZURITA, EUGENIA; PECCI, ADALI; ETCHENIQUE, ROBERTO; HOZBOR, DANIELA

Frontiers in Medicine

Frontiers Media S.A.

Año: 2021 vol. 8

The high COVID-19 dissemination rate demands active surveillance to identify asymptomatic, presymptomatic, and oligosymptomatic (APO) SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals. This is of special importance in communities inhabiting closed or semi-closed institutions such as residential care homes, prisons, neuropsychiatric hospitals, etc., where risk people are in close contact. Thus, a pooling approach?where samples are mixed and tested as single pools?is an attractive strategy to rapidly detect APO-infected in these epidemiological scenarios.