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

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Mar;42(3):372-373. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.254. Epub 2020 May 27.

Authors

Francesco Chirico^{1

2}, Gabriella Nucera^{3

4}, Nicola Magnavita^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Postgraduate School of Occupational Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
² Health Service Department, State Police, Ministry of Interior, Milan, Italy.
³ Faculty of Nursing, University of Milan, Italy.
⁴ Fatebenefratelli Sacco, FatebeneFratelli Hospital, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Department of Woman/Child and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico "A.Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 / transmission
COVID-19 Testing
Cross Infection / prevention & control*
Humans
SARS-CoV-2
Tomography, X-Ray Computed