A nosocomial measles outbreak in Italy, February-April 2017

We describe a nosocomial outbreak of measles that occurred in an Italian hospital during the first months of 2017, involving 35 persons and including healthcare workers, support personnel working in the hospital, visitors and community contacts. Late diagnosis of the first case, support personnel no...

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Autores principales: Porretta, Andrea, Quattrone, Filippo, Aquino, Francesco, Pieve, Giulio, Bruni, Beatrice, Gemignani, Giulia, Vatteroni, Maria Linda, Pistello, Mauro, Privitera, Gaetano Pierpaolo, Lopalco, Pier Luigi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5572940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28840827
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.33.30597
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author Porretta, Andrea
Quattrone, Filippo
Aquino, Francesco
Pieve, Giulio
Bruni, Beatrice
Gemignani, Giulia
Vatteroni, Maria Linda
Pistello, Mauro
Privitera, Gaetano Pierpaolo
Lopalco, Pier Luigi
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Quattrone, Filippo
Aquino, Francesco
Pieve, Giulio
Bruni, Beatrice
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Pistello, Mauro
Privitera, Gaetano Pierpaolo
Lopalco, Pier Luigi
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description We describe a nosocomial outbreak of measles that occurred in an Italian hospital during the first months of 2017, involving 35 persons and including healthcare workers, support personnel working in the hospital, visitors and community contacts. Late diagnosis of the first case, support personnel not being promptly recognised as hospital workers and diffusion of the infection in the emergency department had a major role in sustaining this outbreak.
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spelling pubmed-55729402017-09-06 A nosocomial measles outbreak in Italy, February-April 2017 Porretta, Andrea Quattrone, Filippo Aquino, Francesco Pieve, Giulio Bruni, Beatrice Gemignani, Giulia Vatteroni, Maria Linda Pistello, Mauro Privitera, Gaetano Pierpaolo Lopalco, Pier Luigi Euro Surveill Rapid Communication We describe a nosocomial outbreak of measles that occurred in an Italian hospital during the first months of 2017, involving 35 persons and including healthcare workers, support personnel working in the hospital, visitors and community contacts. Late diagnosis of the first case, support personnel not being promptly recognised as hospital workers and diffusion of the infection in the emergency department had a major role in sustaining this outbreak. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5572940/ /pubmed/28840827 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.33.30597 Text en This article is copyright of The Authors, 2017. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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Porretta, Andrea
Quattrone, Filippo
Aquino, Francesco
Pieve, Giulio
Bruni, Beatrice
Gemignani, Giulia
Vatteroni, Maria Linda
Pistello, Mauro
Privitera, Gaetano Pierpaolo
Lopalco, Pier Luigi
A nosocomial measles outbreak in Italy, February-April 2017
title A nosocomial measles outbreak in Italy, February-April 2017
title_full A nosocomial measles outbreak in Italy, February-April 2017
title_fullStr A nosocomial measles outbreak in Italy, February-April 2017
title_full_unstemmed A nosocomial measles outbreak in Italy, February-April 2017
title_short A nosocomial measles outbreak in Italy, February-April 2017
title_sort nosocomial measles outbreak in italy, february-april 2017
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5572940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28840827
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.33.30597
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