Recommendations for the prevention, mitigation and containment of the emerging SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic in haemodialysis centres

Basile, Carlo; Combe, Christian; Pizzarelli, Francesco; Covic, Adrian; Davenport, Andrew; Kanbay, Mehmet; Kirmizis, Dimitrios; Schneditz, Daniel; M. van der Sande, Frank; Mitra, Sandip

doi:10.1093/ndt/gfaa069

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Recommendations for the prevention, mitigation and containment of the emerging SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic in haemodialysis centres

Published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation • Mar 20, 2020

Authors:

Carlo Basile

Christian Combe

Francesco Pizzarelli

Abstract

COVID-19, a disease caused by a novel coronavirus, is a major global human threat that has turned into a pandemic. This novel coronavirus has specifically high morbidity in the elderly and in comorbid populations. Uraemic patients on dialysis combine an intrinsic fragility and a very frequent burden...

Subject

Pandemic

Isolation (microbiology)

Medicine

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