Nosocomial or not? A combined epidemiological and genomic investigation to understand hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection on an elderly care ward

Nosocomial or not? A combined epidemiological and genomic investigation to understand hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection on an elderly care ward

Summary: Background: COVID-19 has the potential to cause outbreaks in hospitals. Given the comorbid and elderly cohort of patients hospitalized, hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection is often fatal. Pathogen genome sequencing is becoming increasingly important in infection prevention and control (IP...

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Main Authors: R.D. Wenlock, M. Tausan, R. Mann, W. Garr, R. Preston, A. Arnold, J. Hoban, L. Webb, C. Quick, A. Beckett, K. Loveson, S. Glaysher, S. Elliott, C. Malone, B. Cogger, L. Easton, S.C. Robson, M.O. Hassan-Ibrahim, C. Sargent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:Infection Prevention in Practice
Subjects:
COVID-19
Hospital-acquired infection
Outbreak
Genome sequencing
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590088921000548

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