Lessons learned from the investigation of a COVID-19 cluster in Creil, France: effectiveness of targeting symptomatic cases and conducting contact tracing around them

Abstract Background This study presents the methods and results of the investigation into a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a professional community. Due to the limited testing capacity available in France at the time, we elaborated a testing strategy according to pre-test probability. Methods The investigat...

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Main Authors: Franck de Laval, Anaïs Grosset-Janin, François Delon, Alexandre Allonneau, Christelle Tong, Flavie Letois, Anne Couderc, Marc-Antoine Sanchez, César Destanque, Fabrice Biot, Françoise Raynaud, Christine Bigaillon, Olivier Ferraris, Etienne Simon-Loriere, Vincent Enouf, Dinaherisoa Andriamanantena, Vincent Pommier de Santi, Emilie Javelle, Audrey Mérens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06166-9