Two outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 in department of surgery in a Wuhan hospital

The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in China, attracted a large number of medical staff to help in the city's hospitals and this put them at a high risk of infection. We describe twenty medical staff who were diagnosed with COVID-19 within one week in the department of surgery in a Wuhan hospital. Epide...

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Autores principales: Gao, Shicheng, Yuan, Yufeng, Xiong, Yong, Zhang, Yongxi, Deng, Liping, Chen, Tielong, Ke, Hengning, Wang, Xinghuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34355161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2020.100065
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author Gao, Shicheng
Yuan, Yufeng
Xiong, Yong
Zhang, Yongxi
Deng, Liping
Chen, Tielong
Ke, Hengning
Wang, Xinghuan
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description The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in China, attracted a large number of medical staff to help in the city's hospitals and this put them at a high risk of infection. We describe twenty medical staff who were diagnosed with COVID-19 within one week in the department of surgery in a Wuhan hospital. Epidemiological investigation of these cases identified misdiagnosed patients (source of infection), an inappropriate clinical meeting and working without wearing face masks to be the causes of the outbreaks. This report emphasizes the importance of wearing a facemask and applying other standard infection control precautions to protect medical personnel from infection with the virus.
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spelling pubmed-72275362020-05-18 Two outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 in department of surgery in a Wuhan hospital Gao, Shicheng Yuan, Yufeng Xiong, Yong Zhang, Yongxi Deng, Liping Chen, Tielong Ke, Hengning Wang, Xinghuan Infect Prev Pract Short Report The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in China, attracted a large number of medical staff to help in the city's hospitals and this put them at a high risk of infection. We describe twenty medical staff who were diagnosed with COVID-19 within one week in the department of surgery in a Wuhan hospital. Epidemiological investigation of these cases identified misdiagnosed patients (source of infection), an inappropriate clinical meeting and working without wearing face masks to be the causes of the outbreaks. This report emphasizes the importance of wearing a facemask and applying other standard infection control precautions to protect medical personnel from infection with the virus. Elsevier 2020-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7227536/ /pubmed/34355161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2020.100065 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Gao, Shicheng
Yuan, Yufeng
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Zhang, Yongxi
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Chen, Tielong
Ke, Hengning
Wang, Xinghuan
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title Two outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 in department of surgery in a Wuhan hospital
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title_short Two outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 in department of surgery in a Wuhan hospital
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34355161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2020.100065
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