Environmental testing for SARS-CoV-2 in three tertiary-care hospitals during the peak of the third COVID-19 wave
| Autor: | Antonios Vasilogiannakopoulos, Evanthia Botsa, Olga Daligarou, Maria Tseroni, Athanasia Lourida, Athanasios Tsakris, Maria Panagiotou, Cleo Anastassopoulou, Charalampos Daflos, Nikolaos Spanakis, Helena C. Maltezou |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
medicine.medical_specialty environmental contamination Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Epidemiology Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Disease cluster Tertiary care Article Tertiary Care Centers Pediatric hospital Intensive care Pandemic Medicine Humans B.1.1.7 fomites disinfection Pandemics business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 Infectious Diseases inanimate surfaces Emergency medicine business hospitals |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Infection Control |
| ISSN: | 1527-3296 0196-6553 |
| Popis: | Contamination of surfaces has been implicated in transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We tested by real-time PCR for SARS-CoV-2 contamination environmental samples from three hospitals during the peak of the third pandemic wave. Overall, 19 of 463 (4.1%) samples tested positive: 12 of 173 (6.9%) samples from a COVID-19 hospital, 3 of 177 (1.7%) samples from a non-COVID-19 hospital, and 4 of 113 (3.5%) samples from a pediatric hospital with dedicated COVID-19 clinics. Most positive samples originated from emergency departments (EDs) (47.3%) and the intensive care units (ICUs) (26.3%) of the COVID-19 hospital. Positive samples belonged almost exclusively (18/19) to the highly transmissible B.1.1.7 cluster, that might explain environmental contamination at this stage of the pandemic. The frequency and efficiency of disinfection in high-risk patient areas, such as EDs and ICUs, should be reinforced, especially during this period where highly transmissible variants of concern are widespread. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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