How do HSCT patients get a SARS-CoV-2 infection?
The transmission of vector-brone diseases (e.g. Covid-19, flu, etc.) is a major burden in hospital management.
COVID-19 INFECTION
Most patients were diagnosed in the outpatient or emergency unit:1,2
References:
- Piñana J.L. et al. Infectious Complications Subcommittee of the Spanish Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cell Therapy Group (GETH). Risk factors and outcome of COVID-19 in patients with hematological malignancies. Exp Hematol Oncol. 2020 Aug 25;9:21;
- Coll E. et al. Spanish Group for the Study of COVID-19 in Transplant Recipients. COVID-19 in transplant recipients: The Spanish experience. Am J Transplant. 2021 May;21(5):1825-1837.