Universal Screening for SARS-CoV-2 of all Human Milk Bank Samples

Affiliations

¹ 9342 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Human Milk Bank, Medical and Surgical Department of Fetus - Newborn - Infant, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
² Virology Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

Comment

Guglielmo Salvatori et al. J Hum Lact. 2021 Feb.

. 2021 Feb;37(1):40-42.

doi: 10.1177/0890334420962074. Epub 2020 Sep 22.

¹ 9342 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Human Milk Bank, Medical and Surgical Department of Fetus - Newborn - Infant, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
² Virology Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

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