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cord-301484-y9l2hmqf	MASSAROTTI, Claudia	Asymptomatic SARS‐CoV‐2 infections in pregnant patients in an Italian city during complete lockdown	2020-08-25		.txt	text/plain	1102	64	47	Data from both New York and London report a high prevalence of the asymptomatic SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in pregnant patients admitted for delivery, raising questions on the possible correlated dangers (i.e. contacts with healthcare workers; the possible creation of an intra‐hospital outbreak at birth; conflicting evidences on vertical transmission). For this study, results from SARS‐CoV‐2 screening via nasopharyngeal swab from maternity wards of the four hospitals of Genoa, Italy were collected during a month of complete lockdown, from April 1 to April 30, 2020. Early detection and isolation of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 positive patients is a crucial public safety action [1] , but a screening of the entire population is difficult to be This article is protected by copyright. The incidence of positive SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal swabs in asymptomatic pregnant women were 13.5 and 6.2% in two reported screened cohort in New York and London [2, 3] . Since the implementation of the universal screening, all pregnant women admitted for delivery were tested for SARS-CoV-2.	./cache/cord-301484-y9l2hmqf.txt	./txt/cord-301484-y9l2hmqf.txt