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Possibility of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in a tertiary care hospital setting: A case study

INTRODUCTION: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has spready globally. This report describes the person-to-person transmission of the virus in a hospital setting. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 63-year-old man with pneumonia and a 70-year-old man without symptoms wer...

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Autores principales: Morioka, Shinichiro, Nakamura, Keiji, Iida, Shun, Kutsuna, Satoshi, Kinoshita, Noriko, Suzuki, Tetsuya, Suzuki, Tadaki, Yamamoto, Kei, Hayakawa, Kayoko, Saito, Sho, Ohmagari, Norio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7391061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2020.100079
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has spready globally. This report describes the person-to-person transmission of the virus in a hospital setting. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 63-year-old man with pneumonia and a 70-year-old man without symptoms were admitted to a tertiary hospital with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Both men were accompanied by their wives, who stayed with their husbands during their hospitalisation. The wives of Patient 1 and Patient 2 tested positive and negative for SARS-CoV-2, respectively. Of the environmental samples tested, 1/21 and 0/25 from the rooms of Patient 1 and Patient 2, respectively, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Patient 1’s wife appeared to have acquired infection during her husband’s hospitalisation. DISCUSSION: The study had several limitations, including methodology inconsistencies. Additionally, a viral culture was not performed to demonstrate the viability of the virus identified in the environmental sample. Finally, the wife of Patient 1 stayed on the Diamond Princess cruise ship for 4 days before being transferred to the hospital and may have been infected on the ship and not while in the hospital. CONCLUSION: Our study suggests that airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 may be limited. However, owing to the abovementioned limitations, the results should be interpreted with caution.