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Of the 360 participants enrolled in the study, 82.2% were female, with median age of 32.5 years. Approximately 32% were physicians, 31% were nurses, 21% were nursing assistants, and 15% were other healthcare professionals. The frontline HCW group had a lower proportion of male, were younger, and had a greater number of nurses than physicians. Approximately a half of frontline HCWs worked in the Department of Medicine, mainly in inpatient wards (IPD) (Table 1).

A rare ability to enhance dengue virus disease In some cases, secondary infections of dengue virus can be extremely serious and result in plasma leakage, thrombocytopenia, and hemorrhagic disease. This phenomenon has been attributed to antibody-dependent enhancement. Wang et al. show that a specific subclass of antibody, IgG1, which lacks fucosyl residues on the Fc segment of the heavy chain of the immunoglobulin, is elevated in patients with severe secondary dengue disease.