A well-controlled Covid-19 cluster in a semi-closed adolescent psychiatry inpatient facility.

Clin Microbiol Infect

Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention and Control, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium; Molecular Bacteriology Laboratory, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Tropical Diseases Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Published: January 2021

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