The role of airborne transmission in a large single source outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in a Belgian nursing home in 2020
Objectives: To better understand the conditions which have led to one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in Belgian nursing homes in 2020. Setting: A nursing home in Flanders, Belgium, which experienced a massive outbreak of COVID-19 after a cultural event. An external volunteer who dressed as a legendary figure visited consecutively the 4 living units on December, 4th and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 the next day. Within days, residents started to display symptoms and the outbreak spread rapidly within the nursing home. Methods: We interviewed key informants and collected standardized data f... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Epidemics, Vol 40, Iss , Pp 100589- (2022) |
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Elsevier
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Schlagwörter: | COVID-19 / Airborne transmission / Outbreak / Nursing home / Belgium / SARS-CoV-2 / Infectious and parasitic diseases / RC109-216 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28532341 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100589 |