Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: A risk for health care transmission

The Middle East Respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has been responsible for multiple health care–associated outbreaks. We investigated whether high-touch surfaces in 3 rooms of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV patients were contaminated with MERS-CoV RNA. We found 2 out of 51 surfaces were con...

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Autores principales: Khan, Raymond M., Al-Dorzi, Hasan M., Al Johani, Sameera, Balkhy, Hanan H., Alenazi, Thamer H., Baharoon, Salim, Arabi, Yaseen M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2016
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27339792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2016.05.006
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author Khan, Raymond M.
Al-Dorzi, Hasan M.
Al Johani, Sameera
Balkhy, Hanan H.
Alenazi, Thamer H.
Baharoon, Salim
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description The Middle East Respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has been responsible for multiple health care–associated outbreaks. We investigated whether high-touch surfaces in 3 rooms of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV patients were contaminated with MERS-CoV RNA. We found 2 out of 51 surfaces were contaminated with MERS-CoV viral genetic material. Hence, environmental contamination may be a potential source of health care transmission and outbreaks. Meticulous environmental cleaning may be important in preventing transmission within the health care setting.
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spelling pubmed-71327032020-04-08 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: A risk for health care transmission Khan, Raymond M. Al-Dorzi, Hasan M. Al Johani, Sameera Balkhy, Hanan H. Alenazi, Thamer H. Baharoon, Salim Arabi, Yaseen M. Am J Infect Control Brief Report The Middle East Respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has been responsible for multiple health care–associated outbreaks. We investigated whether high-touch surfaces in 3 rooms of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV patients were contaminated with MERS-CoV RNA. We found 2 out of 51 surfaces were contaminated with MERS-CoV viral genetic material. Hence, environmental contamination may be a potential source of health care transmission and outbreaks. Meticulous environmental cleaning may be important in preventing transmission within the health care setting. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2016-11-01 2016-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7132703/ /pubmed/27339792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2016.05.006 Text en © 2016 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Khan, Raymond M.
Al-Dorzi, Hasan M.
Al Johani, Sameera
Balkhy, Hanan H.
Alenazi, Thamer H.
Baharoon, Salim
Arabi, Yaseen M.
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: A risk for health care transmission
title Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: A risk for health care transmission
title_full Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: A risk for health care transmission
title_fullStr Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: A risk for health care transmission
title_full_unstemmed Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: A risk for health care transmission
title_short Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: A risk for health care transmission
title_sort middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus on inanimate surfaces: a risk for health care transmission
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27339792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2016.05.006
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