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. 2021 May;82(5):e13-e15.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.02.009. Epub 2021 Feb 10.

Role of super-spreader phenomenon in a Covid-19 cluster among healthcare workers in a Primary Care Hospital

Marine Nadal  1 , Ludovic Lassel  1 , Michel Denis  2 , Aude Gibelin  3 , Sandra Fournier  4 , Laurent Menard  5 , Hélène Goulet  6 , Basma Abdi  7 , Muriel Farthoukh  8 , Gilles Pialoux  9
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Role of super-spreader phenomenon in a Covid-19 cluster among healthcare workers in a Primary Care Hospital

Marine Nadal et al. J Infect. 2021 May.
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Declaration of Competing Interest We declare no competing interests regarding this study.

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Fig 1
Fig. 1
summarizes secondary cases. In the ER, ten staff members were considered moderate/high-risk. Contact with the patient occurred on February 21. Two nurse's aides (cases 1–2) and two student nurses (cases 3–4) tested positive with symptom onset ranging from February 25 to March 1. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
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Comment on

  • SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) superspreader events.
    Majra D, Benson J, Pitts J, Stebbing J. Majra D, et al. J Infect. 2021 Jan;82(1):36-40. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.11.021. Epub 2020 Nov 25. J Infect. 2021. PMID: 33245943 Free PMC article. Review.

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