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cord-301988-cevv81h3	Hassoun, Ali	Seasonal variation of respiratory pathogen colonization in asymptomatic health care professionals: A single-center, cross-sectional, 2-season observational study	2015-08-01		.txt	text/plain	3067	169	40	BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to determine the seasonal variance of potentially pathogenic bacterial and viral organisms in nasopharyngeal specimens obtained from asymptomatic health care professionals (HCPs) during the 2014 winter and summer months. Although asymptomatic HCPs certainly harbor a number of different potentially infectious agents, future studies are needed to determine whether colonized pathogens are transmitted or initiate infection in at-risk patient populations. Here, we describe the frequency and seasonal variation of bacterial and viral detections in asymptomatic health care professionals (HCPs) during the winter and summer months of 2014. 4 By elucidating changes in pathogen colonization rates in asymptomatic HCPs during different time periods in the year, health care organizations can monitor which potentially pathogenic agents are most prevalent in carriers in a health care setting and observe correlations with infection levels in at-risk hospitalized patients.	./cache/cord-301988-cevv81h3.txt	./txt/cord-301988-cevv81h3.txt