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Editor, Senior Moderator
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
. 2022 Feb 28;1-10.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2022.44. Online ahead of print.
Risk factors for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA environmental contamination in rooms of patients with coronavirus disease 2019
Jun-Won Seo[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Da Young Kim[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Na Ra Yun[SUP] 1 [/SUP], You Mi Lee[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Merlin Jayalal Lawrence Panchali[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mi-Seon Bang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Seong Yeon Hwang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Choon-Mee Kim[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Dong-Min Kim[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
The risk factors of environmental contamination by SARS-CoV-2 were unknown. We analyzed 1,320 environmental samples obtained from COVID-19 patients for 1 year. The risk factors of contamination of COVID-19 patients' surrounding environment were higher viral load in the respiratory tract and shorter duration from symptom onset to sample collection.
Keywords: COVID-19; Environmental contamination; SARS-CoV-2.
. 2022 Feb 28;1-10.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2022.44. Online ahead of print.
Risk factors for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA environmental contamination in rooms of patients with coronavirus disease 2019
Jun-Won Seo[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Da Young Kim[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Na Ra Yun[SUP] 1 [/SUP], You Mi Lee[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Merlin Jayalal Lawrence Panchali[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mi-Seon Bang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Seong Yeon Hwang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Choon-Mee Kim[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Dong-Min Kim[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 35225184
- DOI: 10.1017/ice.2022.44
Abstract
The risk factors of environmental contamination by SARS-CoV-2 were unknown. We analyzed 1,320 environmental samples obtained from COVID-19 patients for 1 year. The risk factors of contamination of COVID-19 patients' surrounding environment were higher viral load in the respiratory tract and shorter duration from symptom onset to sample collection.
Keywords: COVID-19; Environmental contamination; SARS-CoV-2.