The role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting

• Main Authors: Gu-Qin Zhang (Author), Hua-Qin Pan (Author), Xing-Xing Hu (Author), Shao-Jun He (Author), Yi-Fei Chen (Author), Chao-Jie Wei (Author), Lan Ni (Author), Li-Ping Zhang (Author), Zhen-Shun Cheng (Author), Jiong Yang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract From December 25, 2019 to January 31, 2020, 33 cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were identified in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China, yet none of the affiliated HCWs was infected. Here we analyzed the inf...