COVID-19 in long-term care facilities: An upcoming threat that cannot be ignored

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Tainan Branch, Tainan, Taiwan.
² Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Taipei City Hospital, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, St. Joseph's Hospital, Yunlin County, Taiwan; MacKay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁶ Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: hsporen@ntu.edu.tw.

Chih-Cheng Lai et al. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;53(3):444-446.

doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2020.04.008. Epub 2020 Apr 13.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Tainan Branch, Tainan, Taiwan.
² Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Taipei City Hospital, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, St. Joseph's Hospital, Yunlin County, Taiwan; MacKay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁶ Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: hsporen@ntu.edu.tw.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Long-term care facilicity; SARS-CoV-2.

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