Sporadic outbreaks of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infection in a highly-vaccinated inpatient population during a community outbreak of the B.1.617.2 variant: The role of enhanced infection-prevention measures

Sporadic clusters of health care-associated COVID-19 infection occurred in a highly vaccinated health care-workers and patient population, over a 3-month period during ongoing community transmission of the B.1.617.2 variant. Enhanced infection-prevention measures and robust surveillance systems, inc...

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Autores principales: Wee, Liang En, Conceicao, Edwin Philip, Sim, Jean Xiang-Ying, Aung, May Kyawt, Aung, Myat Oo, Yong, Yang, Arora, Shalvi, Ko, Karrie Kwan-Ki, Venkatachalam, Indumathi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8800934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35108584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.01.009
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Conceicao, Edwin Philip
Sim, Jean Xiang-Ying
Aung, May Kyawt
Aung, Myat Oo
Yong, Yang
Arora, Shalvi
Ko, Karrie Kwan-Ki
Venkatachalam, Indumathi
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Conceicao, Edwin Philip
Sim, Jean Xiang-Ying
Aung, May Kyawt
Aung, Myat Oo
Yong, Yang
Arora, Shalvi
Ko, Karrie Kwan-Ki
Venkatachalam, Indumathi
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description Sporadic clusters of health care-associated COVID-19 infection occurred in a highly vaccinated health care-workers and patient population, over a 3-month period during ongoing community transmission of the B.1.617.2 variant. Enhanced infection-prevention measures and robust surveillance systems, including routine-rostered-testing of all inpatients and staff and usage of N95-respirators in all clinical areas, were insufficient in achieving zero health care-associated transmission. The unvaccinated and immunocompromised remain at-risk and should be prioritized for enhanced surveillance.
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spelling pubmed-88009342022-01-31 Sporadic outbreaks of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infection in a highly-vaccinated inpatient population during a community outbreak of the B.1.617.2 variant: The role of enhanced infection-prevention measures Wee, Liang En Conceicao, Edwin Philip Sim, Jean Xiang-Ying Aung, May Kyawt Aung, Myat Oo Yong, Yang Arora, Shalvi Ko, Karrie Kwan-Ki Venkatachalam, Indumathi Am J Infect Control Brief Report Sporadic clusters of health care-associated COVID-19 infection occurred in a highly vaccinated health care-workers and patient population, over a 3-month period during ongoing community transmission of the B.1.617.2 variant. Enhanced infection-prevention measures and robust surveillance systems, including routine-rostered-testing of all inpatients and staff and usage of N95-respirators in all clinical areas, were insufficient in achieving zero health care-associated transmission. The unvaccinated and immunocompromised remain at-risk and should be prioritized for enhanced surveillance. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-04 2022-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8800934/ /pubmed/35108584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.01.009 Text en © 2022 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.
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Wee, Liang En
Conceicao, Edwin Philip
Sim, Jean Xiang-Ying
Aung, May Kyawt
Aung, Myat Oo
Yong, Yang
Arora, Shalvi
Ko, Karrie Kwan-Ki
Venkatachalam, Indumathi
Sporadic outbreaks of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infection in a highly-vaccinated inpatient population during a community outbreak of the B.1.617.2 variant: The role of enhanced infection-prevention measures
title Sporadic outbreaks of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infection in a highly-vaccinated inpatient population during a community outbreak of the B.1.617.2 variant: The role of enhanced infection-prevention measures
title_full Sporadic outbreaks of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infection in a highly-vaccinated inpatient population during a community outbreak of the B.1.617.2 variant: The role of enhanced infection-prevention measures
title_fullStr Sporadic outbreaks of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infection in a highly-vaccinated inpatient population during a community outbreak of the B.1.617.2 variant: The role of enhanced infection-prevention measures
title_full_unstemmed Sporadic outbreaks of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infection in a highly-vaccinated inpatient population during a community outbreak of the B.1.617.2 variant: The role of enhanced infection-prevention measures
title_short Sporadic outbreaks of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infection in a highly-vaccinated inpatient population during a community outbreak of the B.1.617.2 variant: The role of enhanced infection-prevention measures
title_sort sporadic outbreaks of healthcare-associated covid-19 infection in a highly-vaccinated inpatient population during a community outbreak of the b.1.617.2 variant: the role of enhanced infection-prevention measures
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8800934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35108584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.01.009
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