SARS-CoV-2 Environmental contamination in hospital rooms is uncommon using viral culture techniques

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Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publicat
[저자] Bobby G Warren, Alicia Nelson, Aaron Barrett, Bechtler Addison, Amanda Graves, Raquel Binder, Gregory Gray, Sarah Lewis, Becky A Smith, David J Weber, Emily E Sickbert-Bennett, Deverick J Anderson, CDC Prevention Epicenters Program
[Category] SARS,
PMC URL    Pubmed URL    [DOI] 10.1093/cid/ciac023    
[Source] PMC

Abstract We assessed environmental contamination of inpatient rooms housing COVID-19 patients in a dedicated COVID-19 unit. Contamination with SARS-CoV-2 was found on 5.5% (19/347) of surfaces via RT-PCR and 0.3% (1/347) of surfaces via cell culture. Environmental contamination is uncommon in hospitals rooms; RNA presence is not a specific indicator of infectious virus.

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【저자키워드】 COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, pandemic, environmental contamination,