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01-10-2021 | SARS-CoV-2 | Letter to Editor
Containment of Local COVID-19 Outbreak Among Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients and Healthcare Workers in a Pediatric Stem Cell Unit
Authors:
Monia Ouederni, Samia Rekaya, Oussema Bouabdallah, Ilhem Ben Fradj, Ridha Kouki, Yosr Chebbi, Sahar Ben Ammar, Takwa Lamouchi, Asma Lachiheb, Nessrine Zekri, Siwar Laajili, Ikram Zaiter, Agnes Hamzaoui, Mohamed Bejaoui, Fethi Mellouli, Wafa Achour, Monia Ben Khaled
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Journal of Clinical Immunology
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Issue 7/2021
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Excerpt
The pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 poses unprecedented stress on the hematopoietic cell transplantation (HSCT) centers. Immunological recovery after HSCT is habitually required for infection control [
1]. However, the natural history of the SARS-CoV-2 in pediatric patients receiving HSCT is largely unknown. Furthermore, the transplantation units are facing many other challenges related to HSCT planning and the risk of SARS-CoV-2 spread among healthcare personnel. A traceable outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 among healthcare workers at an adult HSCT unit was recently reported affecting five nurses [
2]. Few separated case reports of SARS-COV2 were published in children receiving HSCT [
3,
4]. We report on an outbreak of COVID-19 among healthcare workers and patients at a pediatric HSCT unit, measurements taken for its containment, and the outcome of pediatric HSCT recipients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection. This is, to our knowledge, the first report of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a pediatric HSCT unit. …
