Yıl: 2022 Cilt: 27 Sayı: 4 Sayfa Aralığı: 654 - 658 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.5578/flora.20229615 İndeks Tarihi: 09-05-2023

654 Protective Role of Wearing a Mask in a Preschool

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Undoubtedly, children in preschool are at high risk for COVID-19 as they have not been vaccinated, do not wear masks properly, and do not provide good hand hygiene. This study presents a girl who was not infected with SARS-CoV-2 as she wore a mask properly during the COVID-19 outbreak in her school. In January 2022, a child whose mother was reported to be positive for COVID-19 was found to have a positive SARS-CoV-2 test. It was reported that the positive child had been going to school for the last three days and did not wear a mask during this time. He did not have any symptoms. Due to close contact with the infected case, SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR (BioSpeedy SARS-CoV-2 kit, Bioeksen Inc., İstanbul, Türkiye) test was performed on all children. The school was immediately closed. All children and teachers working at the school were isolated at home for seven days. On the second and third days of the quarantine, 50% of the kindergarten (eight students and one teacher) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR. It was noted that the teacher had three doses with Comirnaty (formerly BioNTech, Pfizer) (BNT 162b2) (BioNTech, Fosun Pharma, Pfizer, NY, USA) and did not wear a mask in those days. In the five-year-old class, only the SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR tests of a girl who wore the mask appropriately and a boy who had a previous COVID-19 were negative. The tests of these children did not turn out to be positive until the end of the quarantine. In the COVID-19 outbreak that started in a kindergarten classroom, a five-year-old unvaccinated girl wearing her disposable mask properly was protected against COVID-19 and prevented the virus from spreading to her family.
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Bir Anaokulunda Maske Takmanın Koruyucu Rolü

Öz:
Hiç şüphesiz anaokulundaki çocuklar aşılanmamış olmaları, düzgün maske takamamaları ve el hijyenini iyi sağlayamamaları nedeniyle COVID-19 açısından yüksek bir riske sahiptir. Bu çalışma, anaokulundaki COVID-19 salgınında düzgün bir şekilde maske taktığı için SARS-CoV-2 ile infekte olmayan bir kız çocuğunu sunmaktadır. Ocak 2022’de Kuzey Kıbrıs’ta bir anaokulunda, annesi COVID-19 pozitif olduğu bildirilen bir çocuğun SARS-CoV-2 testinin pozitif olduğu saptandı. Pozitif olan çocuğun son üç gündür okula gittiği, bu sürede ise maske takmadığı rapor edildi. Herhangi bir semptomu olmadığı ise kayıt edildi. İnfekte vaka ile yakın temas kurulması nedeniyle tüm çocuklara SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR (BioSpeedy SARS-CoV-2 kiti, Bioeksen Inc., İstanbul, Türkiye) testi yapıldı. Okul hemen kapatıldı. Tüm çocuklar ve okulda görev yapan öğretmenler yedi gün boyunca evde izole edildi. Karantinanın ikinci ve üçüncü günlerinde anasınıfın %50’sinin (sekiz öğrenci ve bir öğretmen) SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR testi pozitif saptandı. Öğretmenin Comirnaty (eski adıyla BioNTech, Pfizer) (BNT 162b2) (BioNTech, Fosun Pharma, Pfizer, NY, ABD) ile üç doz olduğu ve o günlerde maske takmadığı öğrenildi. Beş yaş sınıfında, sadece maskeyi uygun şekilde takan bir kız çocuğu ile daha önce COVID-19 geçirmiş bir erkek çocuğunun sadece SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR testleri negatif saptandı. Karantina sonuna kadar bu çocukların testleri pozitifleşmedi. Anaokulda bir sınıfta başlayan COVID- 19 salgınında, tek kullanımlık maskesini düzgün takan beş yaşında aşısız bir kız çocuğunun COVID-19’a karşı korunduğu ve virüsün ailesine yayılmasını engellediği görülmüştür.
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ISNAD ARIKAN, AYSE vd. "654 Protective Role of Wearing a Mask in a Preschool". (2022), 654-658. https://doi.org/10.5578/flora.20229615
APA ARIKAN A, S, ŞANLIDAĞ T (2022). 654 Protective Role of Wearing a Mask in a Preschool. Flora İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi, 27(4), 654 - 658. 10.5578/flora.20229615
Chicago ARIKAN AYSE, Sayan,ŞANLIDAĞ Tamer 654 Protective Role of Wearing a Mask in a Preschool. Flora İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi 27, no.4 (2022): 654 - 658. 10.5578/flora.20229615
MLA ARIKAN AYSE, Sayan,ŞANLIDAĞ Tamer 654 Protective Role of Wearing a Mask in a Preschool. Flora İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi, vol.27, no.4, 2022, ss.654 - 658. 10.5578/flora.20229615
AMA ARIKAN A, S,ŞANLIDAĞ T 654 Protective Role of Wearing a Mask in a Preschool. Flora İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi. 2022; 27(4): 654 - 658. 10.5578/flora.20229615
Vancouver ARIKAN A, S,ŞANLIDAĞ T 654 Protective Role of Wearing a Mask in a Preschool. Flora İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi. 2022; 27(4): 654 - 658. 10.5578/flora.20229615
IEEE ARIKAN A, S,ŞANLIDAĞ T "654 Protective Role of Wearing a Mask in a Preschool." Flora İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi, 27, ss.654 - 658, 2022. 10.5578/flora.20229615
ISNAD ARIKAN, AYSE vd. "654 Protective Role of Wearing a Mask in a Preschool". Flora İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi 27/4 (2022), 654-658. https://doi.org/10.5578/flora.20229615