Longitudinal analysis of risk factors associated with severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among hemodialysis patients and healthcare personnel in outpatient hemodialysis centers.

Sumanth Gandra Tingting Li Kimberly A Reske Kate Peacock Karl G Hock Silvana Bommarito Candace Miller Henry Stewart Na Le Dang Christopher W Farnsworth Margaret A Olsen Jennie H Kwon David K Warren Victoria J Fraser

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol

Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.

Published: July 2022

In this prospective, longitudinal study, we examined the risk factors for severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among a cohort of chronic hemodialysis (HD) patients and healthcare personnel (HCPs) over a 6-month period. The risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among HD patients and HCPs was consistently associated with a household member having SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9726589	PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.269	DOI Listing

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