Informing building strategies to reduce infectious aerosol transmission risk by integrating DNA aerosol tracers with quantitative microbial risk assessment

N Clements, I Arvelo, P Arnold… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Using aerosol-based tracers to estimate risk of infectious aerosol transmission aids in the
design of buildings with adequate protection against aerosol transmissible pathogens, such …

Stability of SARS-CoV-2 on commercial aircraft interior Surfaces with Implications for effective control measures

KPY Hui, AWH Chin, J Ehret, KC Ng, M Peiris… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 to 2022 devastated many aspects of life
and the economy, with the commercial aviation industry being no exception. One of the …

Agent-based modeling to estimate the impact of lockdown scenarios and events on a pandemic exemplified on SARS-CoV-2

C Nitzsche, S Simm - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
In actual pandemic situations like COVID-19, it is important to understand the influence of
single mitigation measures as well as combinations to create most dynamic impact for …

Virtual impactor-based label-free pollen detection using holography and deep learning

Y Luo, Y Zhang, T Liu, A Yu, Y Wu, A Ozcan - ACS sensors, 2022 - ACS Publications
Exposure to bio-aerosols such as pollen can lead to adverse health effects. There is a need
for a portable and cost-effective device for long-term monitoring and quantification of various …

Airborne SARS-CoV-2

SJ Dancer - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Debate over the exact mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been intense. 1 This is
entirely reasonable, given that the mechanism of spread determines preventive and …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of thermal stratification on the transport of polydispersed expiratory particles

A Monka, B Fraga, D Soper, H Hemida - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The fluid dynamics of expiratory events are complex, and understanding how indoor air
conditions affect this and the spread of exhaled material is crucial to the prevention of large …

Nanotechnology and its prospective role in using bioactive compounds to fight covid 19 infection in this era

NM Hamdy, EZ El Sayed, SA Allm… - Egyptian Journal of …, 2023 - ejdr.journals.ekb.eg
RTIs or pneumonia, which account for 15% of all pediatric fatalities under the age of five and
cause significant morbidity, continue to be a serious global health issue. The most …

Plasma air purification system: AI optimization, modular reuse, and mechanism research

C Lan, H Zhu, Z Huang, D Liu, S Zhang - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Pathogenic microbial aerosols (PMA), the typical environmental pollutants, are among the
major threats to human health. Here, we developed a new plasma air purification system …

Influences of obstacle factors on the transmission trends of respiratory infectious diseases in indoor public places

Z Cui, M Cai, Y Xiao, Z Zhu, G Chen - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Public facilities are important transmission places for respiratory infectious diseases (eg,
COVID-19), due to the frequent crowd interactions inside. Usually, changes of obstacle …

Symptom propagation in respiratory pathogens of public health concern: a review of the evidence

P Asplin, R Mancy, T Finnie, F Cumming, MJ Keeling… - MedRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Symptom propagation occurs when the symptom set an individual experiences is correlated
with the symptom set of the individual who infected them. Symptom propagation may …