TY - JOUR AU - Asif, Naveed AU - Satti, Shahzeb Ahmed AU - Younas, Alveena AU - Gilani, Mehwish AU - Shaikh, Waqas AU - Ain, Qurat Ul PY - 2021/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - EXPERIENCE OF SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS-2 (SARS-COV-2) - COVID-19 AT A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN QUETTA, BALUCHISTAN JF - Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal JA - PAFMJ VL - 71 IS - 6 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.51253/pafmj.v71i6.6422 UR - https://pafmj.org/PAFMJ/article/view/6422 SP - 2152-56 AB - <p><strong>Objective:</strong> To share the experience of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)-COVID-19 at a tertiary care hospital in Quetta, Baluchistan.</p><p><strong>Study Design:</strong> Cross-sectional study.</p><p><strong>Place and Duration of Study:</strong> Department of Pathology, Combined Military Hospital Quetta, from Mar to Dec 2020.</p><p><strong>Methodology:</strong> This study included 14,741 study participants presenting to CMH Quetta with signs and symptoms of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) and others undergoing COVID-19 PCR for screening purpose. Nasopharyngeal swab collected from these study participants were tested for COVID-19 viral RNA by real-time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> Out of these 14,741 study participants, 1886 (12.7%) were found to be SARS-CoV-2 PCR positive. Among 1886 study participants, 1503 (80%) were males while 383 (20%) were females. Mean age of the study participants was 36 ± 14 years. Most frequent clinical presentations were body aches (96.5%), fever (94.1%), cough (66.8%) and loss of appetite (68.2%). Around 67 (3.5%) positive study participants were asymptomatic.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> In this study, we observed male predominance but severity of signs and symptoms among female study participants. SARS-COVID-19 caused disease with wide range of clinical spectrum and disease can be fatal as well.</p> ER -