Influenza transmissibility among patients and health-care professionals in a geriatric short-stay unit using individual contact data.

ABSTRACT: Detailed information are lacking on influenza transmissibility in hospital although clusters are regularly reported. In this pilot study, our goal was to estimate the transmission rate of H3N2 2012-influenza, among patients and health care professionals in a short-term Acute Care for the Elderly Unit by using a stochastic approach and a simple susceptible-exposed-infectious-removed model. Transmission parameters were derived from documented individual contact data collected by Radio Frequency IDentification technology at the epidemic peak. From our model, nurses appeared to transmit infection to a patient more frequently with a transmission rate of 1.04 per day on average compared to 0.38 from medical doctors. This transmission rate was 0.34 between nurses. These results, even obtained in

SUBMITTER: Gustin MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10310843 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature