Comprehensive investigation of an in-hospital transmission cluster of a symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive physician among patients and healthcare workers in Germany

We investigated potential transmissions of a symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive physician in a tertiary-care hospital who worked for 15 cumulative hours without wearing a face mask. No in-hospital transmissions occurred, despite 254 contacts among patients and healthcare workers. In conclusion, exposed...

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Autores principales: Wendt, Ralph, Nagel, Stephan, Nickel, Olaf, Wolf, Johannes, Kalbitz, Sven, Kaiser, Thorsten, Borte, Stephan, Lübbert, Christoph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32489162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.268
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author Wendt, Ralph
Nagel, Stephan
Nickel, Olaf
Wolf, Johannes
Kalbitz, Sven
Kaiser, Thorsten
Borte, Stephan
Lübbert, Christoph
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spelling pubmed-72980772020-06-17 Comprehensive investigation of an in-hospital transmission cluster of a symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive physician among patients and healthcare workers in Germany Wendt, Ralph Nagel, Stephan Nickel, Olaf Wolf, Johannes Kalbitz, Sven Kaiser, Thorsten Borte, Stephan Lübbert, Christoph Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication We investigated potential transmissions of a symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive physician in a tertiary-care hospital who worked for 15 cumulative hours without wearing a face mask. No in-hospital transmissions occurred, despite 254 contacts among patients and healthcare workers. In conclusion, exposed hospital staff continued work, accompanied by close clinical and virologic monitoring. Cambridge University Press 2020-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7298077/ /pubmed/32489162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.268 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Concise Communication
Wendt, Ralph
Nagel, Stephan
Nickel, Olaf
Wolf, Johannes
Kalbitz, Sven
Kaiser, Thorsten
Borte, Stephan
Lübbert, Christoph
Comprehensive investigation of an in-hospital transmission cluster of a symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive physician among patients and healthcare workers in Germany
title Comprehensive investigation of an in-hospital transmission cluster of a symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive physician among patients and healthcare workers in Germany
title_full Comprehensive investigation of an in-hospital transmission cluster of a symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive physician among patients and healthcare workers in Germany
title_fullStr Comprehensive investigation of an in-hospital transmission cluster of a symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive physician among patients and healthcare workers in Germany
title_full_unstemmed Comprehensive investigation of an in-hospital transmission cluster of a symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive physician among patients and healthcare workers in Germany
title_short Comprehensive investigation of an in-hospital transmission cluster of a symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive physician among patients and healthcare workers in Germany
title_sort comprehensive investigation of an in-hospital transmission cluster of a symptomatic sars-cov-2–positive physician among patients and healthcare workers in germany
topic Concise Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32489162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.268
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