The spatial and temporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2 from the built environment of COVID-19 patient rooms: A multicentre prospective study

• Michael Fralick ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mike.fralick@mail.utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Sinai Health System, Division of General Internal Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sault Area Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2082-2445

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• Madison Burella,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Sinai Health System, Division of General Internal Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sault Area Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

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• Aaron Hinz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Hebah S. Mejbel,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• David S. Guttman,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution & Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Lydia Xing,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Jason Moggridge,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1291-5868

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• John Lapp,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sinai Health System, Division of General Internal Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Alex Wong,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Caroline Nott,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Nicole Harris-Linton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Rees Kassen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Derek R. MacFadden

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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