Nosocomial or not? A combined epidemiological and genomic investigation to understand hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection on an elderly care ward
Summary: Background: COVID-19 has the potential to cause outbreaks in hospitals. Given the comorbid and elderly cohort of patients hospitalized, hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection is often fatal. Pathogen genome sequencing is becoming increasingly important in infection prevention and control (IPC...
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Main Authors: | R.D. Wenlock (Author), M. Tausan (Author), R. Mann (Author), W. Garr (Author), R. Preston (Author), A. Arnold (Author), J. Hoban (Author), L. Webb (Author), C. Quick (Author), A. Beckett (Author), K. Loveson (Author), S. Glaysher (Author), S. Elliott (Author), C. Malone (Author), B. Cogger (Author), L. Easton (Author), S.C. Robson (Author), M.O. Hassan-Ibrahim (Author), C. Sargent (Author) |
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2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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