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cord-298441-77w86l8q	Lombardi, Andrea	Characteristics of 1,573 healthcare workers who underwent nasopharyngeal swab for SARS-CoV-2 in Milano, Lombardy, Italy	2020-06-20		.txt	text/plain	1438	67	52	To answer this question, we reviewed all the 59 nasopharyngeal swab performed in HCWs exposed to confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the 60 Foundation IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico located in Milan, the capital 61 of Lombardy, by large the Italian region mostly affected by We assessed 62 frequency of positive tests among symptomatic and asymptomatic HCWs and evaluated the 63 association between occupation, symptoms (type and number), and presence of the infection. Therefore, in middle-and high-resource settings a mass screening for all 163 HCWs exposed to confirmed COVID-19 cases appears the best approach to limit the spread When stratified according to occupation, test-positive frequencies were clearly higher among 177 subsets with direct contact with patients (physicians including residents, nurses and 178 midwives, healthcare assistants and health technicians) than those without (clerical works and 179 technicians).	./cache/cord-298441-77w86l8q.txt	./txt/cord-298441-77w86l8q.txt