Nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2

  • Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
  • Total publications:8 publications

Grant number: MR/V028456/1

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • Start & end year

    2020
    2021
  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $85,157.24
  • Funder

    UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
  • Principal Investigator

    Dr. Gwenan Knight
  • Research Location

    United Kingdom
  • Lead Research Institution

    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A
  • Research Category

    Epidemiological studies

  • Research Subcategory

    Disease transmission dynamics

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    Not applicable

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 spreads in many different types of environments including within healthcare settings. Understanding how much transmission happens in hospitals or in the community will aid our ability to control ongoing spread, as well as to improve interventions. By knowing what factors make certain hospitals hotspots of transmission we can limit spread by targeting these factors in particular. Within this project we will use mathematical and statistical techniques to harness the UK wide data on hospital cases to understand how important transission of SARS-CoV-2 in hospitals was to the first "wave" of COVID-19 in the UK and what we could do in the face of any future resurgence.

Publicationslinked via Europe PMC

The burden and dynamics of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in England.

Implications of reducing antibiotic treatment duration for antimicrobial resistance in hospital settings: A modelling study and meta-analysis.

Estimation of reproduction numbers in real time: Conceptual and statistical challenges.

The contribution of hospital-acquired infections to the COVID-19 epidemic in England in the first half of 2020.

Estimating the duration of seropositivity of human seasonal coronaviruses using seroprevalence studies.

Effectiveness of infection prevention and control interventions, excluding personal protective equipment, to prevent nosocomial transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review and call for action.

Transmission of community- and hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in hospital settings in the UK: A cohort study.

Risk of mortality in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/1: matched cohort study.