Superspreaders drive the largest outbreaks of hospital onset COVID-19 infection


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Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has been noted both for its rapid spread, but also for the heterogeneity of transmission, with incidences noted of superspreading behaviour. We here applied a novel network reconstruction algorithm to infer patterns of viral transmission occurring between patients and health care workers (HCWs) in the largest clusters of

Preprint DOI

10.31219/osf.io/wmkn3

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CC-By Attribution 4.0 International

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Life Sciences Microbiology Virology Medicine and Health Sciences Diseases Virus Diseases Genetics and Genomics Computational Biology

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hospital nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 superspreader transmission virus

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APA
Illingworth, C., Hamilton, W., Warne, B., Routledge, M., Popay, A., jackson, c., … Török, E. (2021, February 15). Superspreaders drive the largest outbreaks of hospital onset COVID-19 infection. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/wmkn3
MLA
Illingworth, Chris, et al. “Superspreaders Drive the Largest Outbreaks of Hospital Onset COVID-19 Infection.” OSF Preprints, 15 Feb. 2021. Web.
Chicago
Illingworth, Chris, William Hamilton, Ben Warne, Matthew Routledge, Ashley Popay, christopher jackson, Tom Fieldman, et al. 2021. “Superspreaders Drive the Largest Outbreaks of Hospital Onset COVID-19 Infection.” OSF Preprints. February 15. doi:10.31219/osf.io/wmkn3.

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