Possible indirect transmission of COVID-19 at a squash court, Slovenia, March 2020: case report

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, there is an ongoing debate and research regarding the possible ways of virus transmission. We conducted an epidemiological investigation which revealed a cluster of five COVID-19 cases, linked to playing squash at a sports venue in Maribor, Slovenia. Acq...

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Autores principales: Brlek, A., Vidovič, Š., Vuzem, S., Turk, K., Simonović, Z.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32600479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820001326
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description Since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, there is an ongoing debate and research regarding the possible ways of virus transmission. We conducted an epidemiological investigation which revealed a cluster of five COVID-19 cases, linked to playing squash at a sports venue in Maribor, Slovenia. Acquired data raises possibility that the transmission occurred indirectly through contaminated objects in changing room or squash hall or via aerosolisation in squash hall.
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spelling pubmed-73271852020-07-01 Possible indirect transmission of COVID-19 at a squash court, Slovenia, March 2020: case report Brlek, A. Vidovič, Š. Vuzem, S. Turk, K. Simonović, Z. Epidemiol Infect From the Field Since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, there is an ongoing debate and research regarding the possible ways of virus transmission. We conducted an epidemiological investigation which revealed a cluster of five COVID-19 cases, linked to playing squash at a sports venue in Maribor, Slovenia. Acquired data raises possibility that the transmission occurred indirectly through contaminated objects in changing room or squash hall or via aerosolisation in squash hall. Cambridge University Press 2020-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7327185/ /pubmed/32600479 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820001326 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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.
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