Hospital infection and COVID-19: Do not put all your eggs on the "swab" tests

Francesco Chirico; Gabriella Nucera; Nicola Magnavita

doi:10.1017/ice.2020.254

Hospital infection and COVID-19: Do not put all your eggs on the "swab" tests

Francesco Chirico, Gabriella Nucera, Nicola Magnavita

University of Milan

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Abstract

All the procedures to screen patients and healthcare staff are needed to prevent COVID 19 nosocomial outbreaks and are based on the swab test (RT-PCR test). However, literature shows that a negative swab test does not rule out a Covid-19 infection. In this commentary we propose a more comprehensive strategy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-3-3
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.254
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

Covid 19
healthcare
hospital infection
hospital transmission
swab test

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