LEWIS FLETCHER BUSS
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LIM/46 - Laboratório de Parasitologia Médica, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Performance of a qualitative rapid chromatographic immunoassay to diagnose COVID-19 in patients in a middle-income country(2020) COSTA, Silvia Figueiredo; BUSS, Lewis; ESPINOZA, Evelyn Patricia Sanchez; JR, Jose Mauro Vieira; SILVA, Lea Campos de Oliveira da; SOUZA, Regina Maia de; NETO, Lauro Perdigao; PORTO, Ana Paula Matos; LAZARI, Carolina; SANTOS, Vera Aparecida dos; DUARTE, Alberto da Silva; NASTRI, Ana Catharina; LEITE, Gabriel Fialkovitz da Costa; MANULI, Erika; OLIVEIRA, Maura Salaroli de; ZAMPELLI, Daniella Bosco; PASTORE JUNIOR, Laerte; SEGURADO, Aluisio Cotrim; LEVIN, Anna S.; SABINO, EsterObjectives: We evaluated a rapid chromatographic immunoassay (IgG/IgM antibodies) and an ELISA assay to diagnose COVID-19 in patient sat two Brazilian hospitals. Methods: A total of 122 subjects with COVID-19 were included: 106 SARS-COV-2 RT-PCR-positive patients and 16 RT-PCR-negative patients with symptoms and chest computed tomography (CT) consistent with COVID-19. Ninety-six historical blood donation samples were used as controls. Demographic and clinical characteristics were retrieved from electronic records. Sensitivity and specificity were calculated, as were their 95% binomial confidence intervals using the Clopper-Pearson method. All analyses were performed in R version 3.6.3. Results: The sensitivity of the chromatographic immunoassay in all RT-PCR-positive patients, irrespective of the timing of symptom onset, was 85.8% (95% binomial CI 77.7% to 91.9%). This increased with time after symptom onset, and at >14 days was 94.9% (85.9% to 98.9%). The specificity was 100% (96.4% to 100%). 15/16 (94%) RT- PCR-negative cases tested positive. The most frequent comorbidities were hypertension and diabetes mellitus and the most frequent symptoms were fever, cough, and dyspnea. All RT-PCR-negative patients had pneumonia. The most frequent thoracic CT findings were ground glass changes (n = 11, 68%), which were bilateral in 9 (56%) patients, and diffuse reticulonodular infiltrates (n = 5, 31%). Conclusions: The COVID-19 rapid chromatographic immunoassay evaluated in this study had a high sensitivity and specificity using plasma, particularly after 14 days from symptom onset. ELISA and qualitative rapid chromatographic immunoassays can be used for the diagnosis of RT-PCR-negative patients.
- Healthcare-associated infections on the intensive care unit in 21 Brazilian hospitals during the early months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: An ecological study(2023) PORTO, Ana Paula M.; BORGES, Igor C.; BUSS, Lewis; MACHADO, Anna; BASSETTI, Bil R.; COCENTINO, Brunno; BICALHO, Camila S.; CARRILHO, Claudia; RODRIGUES, Cristhieni; NETO, Eudes A. S.; GIRAO, Evelyne S.; PIASTRELLI, Filipe; SAPIENZA, Giovanna; VARKULJA, Glaucia; KOLBE, Karin; PASSOS, Luciana; ESTEVES, Patricia; GITIRANA, Pollyana; FEIJO, Regia D. F.; COUTINHO, Rosane L.; GUIMARAES, Thais; FERRAZ, Tiago L. L.; LEVIN, Anna S.; COSTA, Silvia F.Objective: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a global health crisis and may have affected healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention strategies. We evaluated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HAI incidence in Brazilian intensive care units (ICUs). Methods: In this ecological study, we compared adult patients admitted to the ICU from April through June 2020 (pandemic period) with the same period in 2019 (prepandemic period) in 21 Brazilian hospitals. We used the Wilcoxon signed rank-sum test in a pairwise analysis to compare the following differences between the pandemic and the prepandemic periods: microbiologically confirmed central-line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) incidence density (cases per 1,000 central line and ventilator days, respectively), the proportion of organisms that caused HAI, and antibiotic consumption (DDD). Results: We detected a significant increase in median CLABSI incidence during the pandemic: 1.60 (IQR, 0.44-4.20) vs 2.81 (IQR, 1.35-6.89) (P = .002). We did not detect a significant difference in VAP incidence between the 2 periods. In addition, we detected a significant increase in the proportion of CLABSI caused by Enterococcus faecalis and Candida spp during the pandemic, although only the latter retained statistical significance after correction for multiple comparisons. We did not detect a significant change in ceftriaxone, piperacillin-tazobactam, meropenem, or vancomycin consumption between the studied periods. Conclusions: There was an increase in CLABSI incidence in Brazilian ICUs during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, we detected an increase in the proportion of CLABSI caused by E. faecalis and Candida spp during this period. CLABSI prevention strategies must be reinforced in ICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Seroprevalence and Risk Factors Among Oligo/Asymptomatic Healthcare Workers: Estimating the Impact of Community Transmission(2021) COSTA, Silvia Figueiredo; GIAVINA-BIANCHI, Pedro; BUSS, Lewis; PERES, Carlos Henrique Mesquita; RAFAEL, Mayra Matias; SANTOS, Lanuse Garcia Neves dos; BEDIN, Anderson Aparecido; FRANCISCO, Maria Cristina Peres Braido; SATAKIE, Fatima Mitie; MENEZES, Maria Aparecida Jesus; SECCO, Ligia Maria Dal; CARON, Deyse Mayara Rodrigues; OLIVEIRA, Allan Brum de; FARIA, Matheus Finardi Lima de; PENTEADO, Angelica Sauiuri de Aurelio; SOUZA, Izabel Oliva Marcilio de; PEREIRA, Grazielly de Fatima; PEREIRA, Rafael; PORTO, Ana Paula Matos; ESPINOZA, Evelyn Patricia Sanchez; MENDES-CORREA, Maria Cassia; LAZARI, Carolina dos Santos; KALIL, Jorge; PERONDI, Maria Beatriz de Moliterno; BONFA, Eloisa Silva Dutra de Oliveira; PERREIRA, Antonio Jose; SABINO, Ester; DUARTE, Alberto Jose da Silva; SEGURADO, Aluisio Cotrim; SANTOS, Vera Aparecida dos; LEVIN, Anna S.We evaluated the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and risk factors among 4987 oligo/asymptomatic healthcare workers; seroprevalence was 14% and factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection were lower educational level (aOR, 1.93; 95% CI, 1.03-3.60), using public transport to work (aOR, 1.65; 95% CI, 1.07-2.62), and working in cleaning or security (aOR, 2.05; 95% CI, 1.04-4.03).