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SARS-CoV-2 environmental contamination from hospitalised patients with COVID-19 receiving aerosol-generating procedures

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  • Rebecca L Winslow Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK The Epidemiology and Public Health Group (EPHG), Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jie Zhou Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ella F Windle College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Intesar Nur College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ranjit Lall Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chen Ji Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jonathan Edward Millar Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paul M Dark NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Critical Care Unit, Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, Salford Royal Hospital, Greater Manchester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jay Naisbitt Critical Care Unit, Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, Salford Royal Hospital, Greater Manchester, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anita Simonds Lung Division, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jake Dunning Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Wendy Barclay Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • John Kenneth Baillie Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gavin D Perkins Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Department of Critical Care Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Malcolm Gracie Semple NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Department of Respiratory Medicine, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Daniel Francis McAuley Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK Regional Intensive Care Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Christopher A Green Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Daniel Francis McAuley, Queen's University Belfast Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK; d.f.mcauley{at}qub.ac.uk
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Citation

Winslow RL, Zhou J, Windle EF, et al
SARS-CoV-2 environmental contamination from hospitalised patients with COVID-19 receiving aerosol-generating procedures
Thorax 2022;77:259-267.

Publication history

  • Received July 30, 2021
  • Accepted October 8, 2021
  • First published November 4, 2021.
Online issue publication 
September 01, 2022

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