Nosocomial Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Retrospective Study of 66 Hospital-acquired Cases in a London Teaching Hospital

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Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publicat
[저자] Hannah M Rickman, Tommy Rampling, Karen Shaw, Gema Martinez-Garcia, Leila Hail, Pietro Coen, Maryam Shahmanesh, Gee Yen Shin, Eleni Nastouli, Catherine F Houlihan
[Category] Fulltext, MERS,
PMC URL    Pubmed URL    [DOI] 10.1093/cid/ciaa816    
[Source] pubmed

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can cause deadly healthcare-associated outbreaks. In a major London teaching hospital, 66 of 435 (15%) COVID-19 inpatient cases between 2 March and 12 April 2020 were definitely or probably hospital-acquired, through varied transmission routes. The case fatality was 36%. Nosocomial infection rates fell following comprehensive infection prevention and control measures.

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【저자키워드】 COVID-19, nosocomial, Transmission, Healthcare-associated infection, Infection prevention and control,