COVID-19 transmission following outpatient endoscopy during pandemic acceleration phase involving SARS-CoV-2 VOC 202012/01 variant in UK

Gut. 2021 Dec;70(12):2227-2229. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2021-324354. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Authors

Bu'Hussain Hayee¹; SCOTS II Project group; Pradeep Bhandari², Colin J Rees³, Ian Penman⁴

Collaborators

SCOTS II Project group:
Vivienne Sayer, Mayur Kumar, Kath Lynch, Olaolu Olabintan Ben Warner, Imogen Sutherland, Gabor Sipos, Zacharias Tsiamoulos, Shraddha Gulati, Mehul Patel, Ed Seward, Rawen Kader, Sergio Coda, Sas Banerjee, Adam Humphries, Sarah Marshall, Angad Dhillon, Romanov Nable

Affiliations

¹ Gastroenterology, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK [email protected].
² Gastroenterology, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.
³ Gastroenterology, South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, South Shields, South Tyneside, UK.
⁴ Centre for Liver & Digestive Disorders, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

PMID: 33762432
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2021-324354

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; endoscopy.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Ambulatory Care*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / transmission*
Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal*
Female
Humans
Infection Control
Male
Pandemics
Prospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2*
United Kingdom