Environmental detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from medical equipment in long-term care facilities undergoing COVID-19 outbreaks

Environmental sampling was conducted at long-term care facilities to determine the extent of surface contamination with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus. Medical equipment used throughout the facility was determined to be contaminated.

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Autores principales: Nelson, Atiba, Kassimatis, Jennifer, Estoque, Jay, Yang, Cicely, McKee, Geoff, Bryce, Elizabeth, Hoang, Linda, Daly, Patricia, Lysyshyn, Mark, Hayden, Althea S., Harding, John, Boraston, Suni, Dawar, Meena, Schwandt, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32645474
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.07.001
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author Nelson, Atiba
Kassimatis, Jennifer
Estoque, Jay
Yang, Cicely
McKee, Geoff
Bryce, Elizabeth
Hoang, Linda
Daly, Patricia
Lysyshyn, Mark
Hayden, Althea S.
Harding, John
Boraston, Suni
Dawar, Meena
Schwandt, Michael
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Kassimatis, Jennifer
Estoque, Jay
Yang, Cicely
McKee, Geoff
Bryce, Elizabeth
Hoang, Linda
Daly, Patricia
Lysyshyn, Mark
Hayden, Althea S.
Harding, John
Boraston, Suni
Dawar, Meena
Schwandt, Michael
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spelling pubmed-73369232020-07-06 Environmental detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from medical equipment in long-term care facilities undergoing COVID-19 outbreaks Nelson, Atiba Kassimatis, Jennifer Estoque, Jay Yang, Cicely McKee, Geoff Bryce, Elizabeth Hoang, Linda Daly, Patricia Lysyshyn, Mark Hayden, Althea S. Harding, John Boraston, Suni Dawar, Meena Schwandt, Michael Am J Infect Control Brief Report Environmental sampling was conducted at long-term care facilities to determine the extent of surface contamination with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus. Medical equipment used throughout the facility was determined to be contaminated. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-02 2020-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7336923/ /pubmed/32645474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.07.001 Text en © 2020 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.
spellingShingle Brief Report
Nelson, Atiba
Kassimatis, Jennifer
Estoque, Jay
Yang, Cicely
McKee, Geoff
Bryce, Elizabeth
Hoang, Linda
Daly, Patricia
Lysyshyn, Mark
Hayden, Althea S.
Harding, John
Boraston, Suni
Dawar, Meena
Schwandt, Michael
Environmental detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from medical equipment in long-term care facilities undergoing COVID-19 outbreaks
title Environmental detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from medical equipment in long-term care facilities undergoing COVID-19 outbreaks
title_full Environmental detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from medical equipment in long-term care facilities undergoing COVID-19 outbreaks
title_fullStr Environmental detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from medical equipment in long-term care facilities undergoing COVID-19 outbreaks
title_full_unstemmed Environmental detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from medical equipment in long-term care facilities undergoing COVID-19 outbreaks
title_short Environmental detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from medical equipment in long-term care facilities undergoing COVID-19 outbreaks
title_sort environmental detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) from medical equipment in long-term care facilities undergoing covid-19 outbreaks
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32645474
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.07.001
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