Open AccessNosocomial COVID-19, a risk illustrated by the first in-hospital transmission of B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a French University Hospital
Author(s) -
Clément Legeay,
Caroline Lefeuvre
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of infection prevention
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.43
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1757-1774
pISSN - 1757-1782
DOI - 10.1177/17571774221127543
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , transmission (telecommunications) , university hospital , cluster (spacecraft) , pediatrics , emergency medicine , transmission rate , hospital admission , retrospective cohort study , virology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , computer science , electrical engineering , programming language , engineering
In this short report, we describe the first nosocomial spread of B.1.1.7 variant (GR/20I/501Y.V1) in a French hospital, underlining the different aspects of in-hospital transmission of SARS-CoV-2.