Article
Real Time Investigation of a large Nosocomial Influenza A Outbreak Informed by Genomic Epidemiology
2020-05-15
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> Nosocomial respiratory virus outbreaks represent serious public health challenges. Rapid and precise identification of cases and tracing of transmission chains is critical to end outbreaks and to inform prevention measures. <h4>Methods:</h4> We combined conventional surveillance with Influenza A virus (IAV) genome sequencing to identify and contain a large IAV outbreak in a metropolitan healt...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 86a9cb14-3add-56be-b397-bfc4965e5967
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.05.10.20096693
