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. 2022 Nov:129:117-119.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2022.07.002. Epub 2022 Jul 5.

Nosocomial human parainfluenza virus type 3 outbreak in immunocompromised patients, and possible lessons from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

N Gürtler  1 , M Osthoff  2 , A Egli  3 , J Halter  4 , N Khanna  5 , S Tschudin-Sutter  5 , S Bassetti  2
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Nosocomial human parainfluenza virus type 3 outbreak in immunocompromised patients, and possible lessons from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

N Gürtler et al. J Hosp Infect. 2022 Nov.
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Cases of human parainfluenza virus-3 infection at University Hospital Basel (blue bars, left scale) and cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Switzerland (orange line, right scale) from October 2016 to April 2022. Mandatory protective measures such as social distancing, use of masks and restricted hospital access for visitors were implemented for the general population and in hospitals at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland (February 2020). These measures were reduced between and after the waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Source of COVID-19 data: Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (https://opendata.swiss/de/dataset/covid-19-schweiz/resource/3a3ce4d9-94d8-42bf-966a-5088b0083bae).
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