Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance in Primary Schools, Kindergartens, and Nurseries, Germany, June‒November 2020

We investigated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections in primary schools, kindergartens, and nurseries in Germany. Of 3,169 oropharyngeal swab specimens, only 2 were positive by real-time reverse transcription PCR. Asymptomatic children attending these institutions do not appear...

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Autores principales: Hoch, Martin, Vogel, Sebastian, Kolberg, Laura, Dick, Elisabeth, Fingerle, Volker, Eberle, Ute, Ackermann, Nikolaus, Sing, Andreas, Huebner, Johannes, Rack-Hoch, Anita, Schober, Tilmann, von Both, Ulrich
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8314813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34087088
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2708.204859
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author Hoch, Martin
Vogel, Sebastian
Kolberg, Laura
Dick, Elisabeth
Fingerle, Volker
Eberle, Ute
Ackermann, Nikolaus
Sing, Andreas
Huebner, Johannes
Rack-Hoch, Anita
Schober, Tilmann
von Both, Ulrich
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Vogel, Sebastian
Kolberg, Laura
Dick, Elisabeth
Fingerle, Volker
Eberle, Ute
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description We investigated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections in primary schools, kindergartens, and nurseries in Germany. Of 3,169 oropharyngeal swab specimens, only 2 were positive by real-time reverse transcription PCR. Asymptomatic children attending these institutions do not appear to be driving the pandemic when appropriate infection control measures are used.
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spelling pubmed-83148132021-08-07 Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance in Primary Schools, Kindergartens, and Nurseries, Germany, June‒November 2020 Hoch, Martin Vogel, Sebastian Kolberg, Laura Dick, Elisabeth Fingerle, Volker Eberle, Ute Ackermann, Nikolaus Sing, Andreas Huebner, Johannes Rack-Hoch, Anita Schober, Tilmann von Both, Ulrich Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We investigated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections in primary schools, kindergartens, and nurseries in Germany. Of 3,169 oropharyngeal swab specimens, only 2 were positive by real-time reverse transcription PCR. Asymptomatic children attending these institutions do not appear to be driving the pandemic when appropriate infection control measures are used. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8314813/ /pubmed/34087088 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2708.204859 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Hoch, Martin
Vogel, Sebastian
Kolberg, Laura
Dick, Elisabeth
Fingerle, Volker
Eberle, Ute
Ackermann, Nikolaus
Sing, Andreas
Huebner, Johannes
Rack-Hoch, Anita
Schober, Tilmann
von Both, Ulrich
Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance in Primary Schools, Kindergartens, and Nurseries, Germany, June‒November 2020
title Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance in Primary Schools, Kindergartens, and Nurseries, Germany, June‒November 2020
title_full Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance in Primary Schools, Kindergartens, and Nurseries, Germany, June‒November 2020
title_fullStr Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance in Primary Schools, Kindergartens, and Nurseries, Germany, June‒November 2020
title_full_unstemmed Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance in Primary Schools, Kindergartens, and Nurseries, Germany, June‒November 2020
title_short Weekly SARS-CoV-2 Sentinel Surveillance in Primary Schools, Kindergartens, and Nurseries, Germany, June‒November 2020
title_sort weekly sars-cov-2 sentinel surveillance in primary schools, kindergartens, and nurseries, germany, june‒november 2020
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8314813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34087088
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2708.204859
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