Detection of viable SARS-CoV-2 on the hands of hospitalized children with COVID-19

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Sep;29(9):1211-1213. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.06.012. Epub 2023 Jun 13.

¹ St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria; Section of Virology, Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Department of Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
² St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria; Labdia Labordiagnostik GmbH, Vienna, Austria; University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³ Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁴ Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Teaching Hospital of the University of Vienna, Klinik Ottakring, Vienna, Austria.
⁵ Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁶ St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria; Labdia Labordiagnostik GmbH, Vienna, Austria.
⁷ St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria.
⁸ Labdia Labordiagnostik GmbH, Vienna, Austria.
⁹ St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria; Labdia Labordiagnostik GmbH, Vienna, Austria; Department of Paediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: thomas.lion@ccri.at.

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Keywords: Hand hygiene; Infectivity; Paediatric; Palmar hand swab; Respiratory virus; Smear infection.

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