Personal protective measures and settings on the risk of SARS-COV-2 community transmission: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, nurses of primary health care has been an important role in Spain. Even so, the data obtained in the tracing have been scarcely used to investigate the possible mechanisms of transmission. Few studies focused on community transmission, evaluating the effectiveness of individual protective measures and exposure environment. The main aim of the study was to evaluate the association between individual protective measures and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the community and to compare secondary attack rates in different exposure settings.

Methods

A case-control study from contact tracing of SARS-CoV-2 index patients. COVID-19 contact tracing was led by nurses at the COVID-19 Coordinating Centre in Majorca (Spain). During the systematic trac

SUBMITTER: Huguet-Torres A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10801386 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature