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- Title
Nosocomial Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Retrospective Study of 66 Hospital-acquired Cases in a London Teaching Hospital.
- Authors
Rickman, Hannah M; Rampling, Tommy; Shaw, Karen; Martinez-Garcia, Gema; Hail, Leila; Coen, Pietro; Shahmanesh, Maryam; Shin, Gee Yen; Nastouli, Eleni; Houlihan, Catherine F
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ACADEMIC medical centers; PREVENTION of communicable diseases; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; CROSS infection; NONPARAMETRIC statistics; POLYMERASE chain reaction; DISEASE prevalence; RETROSPECTIVE studies; REVERSE transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; COVID-19
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021, Vol 72, Issue 4, p690
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/ciaa816