Transmissibility and transmission of respiratory viruses

NHL Leung - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Human respiratory virus infections lead to a spectrum of respiratory symptoms and disease
severity, contributing to substantial morbidity, mortality and economic losses worldwide, as …

COVID‐19 infection and the broader impacts of the pandemic on healthcare workers

N Smallwood, W Harrex, M Rees, K Willis… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2) disease or COVID‐19
pandemic is associated with more than 230 million cases and has challenged healthcare …

Practical indicators for risk of airborne transmission in shared indoor environments and their application to COVID-19 outbreaks

Z Peng, ALP Rojas, E Kropff, W Bahnfleth… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Some infectious diseases, including COVID-19, can undergo airborne transmission. This
may happen at close proximity, but as time indoors increases, infections can occur in shared …

Recognition of aerosol transmission of infectious agents: a commentary

R Tellier, Y Li, BJ Cowling, JW Tang - BMC infectious diseases, 2019 - Springer
Although short-range large-droplet transmission is possible for most respiratory infectious
agents, deciding on whether the same agent is also airborne has a potentially huge impact …

[HTML][HTML] Transmission routes of respiratory viruses among humans

JS Kutter, MI Spronken, PL Fraaij, RAM Fouchier… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Respiratory viruses are transmitted via contact, droplets or aerosols.•Most studies
on inter-human transmission routes are inconclusive.•The relative importance of respiratory …

Fluid dynamics of respiratory infectious diseases

L Bourouiba - Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The host-to-host transmission of respiratory infectious diseases is fundamentally enabled by
the interaction of pathogens with a variety of fluids (gas or liquid) that shape pathogen …

Controversy around airborne versus droplet transmission of respiratory viruses: implication for infection prevention

EYC Shiu, NHL Leung, BJ Cowling - Current opinion in infectious …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Studies that use transmission events as outcome to demonstrate human-to-human
transmission over the aerosol route or quantitative measurement of infectious respiratory …

[HTML][HTML] Natural ventilation for infection control in health-care settings

J Atkinson - 2009 - books.google.com
In this new guideline, natural ventilation is considered for the first time among the effective
measures to control infections in health care. Such a recommendation from WHO …

[PDF][PDF] Role of ventilation in airborne transmission of infectious agents in the built environment–a multidisciplinary systematic review.

Y Li, M Leung, JW Tang, X Yang, CYH Chao, JZ Lin… - Indoor air, 2007 - researchgate.net
There have been few recent studies demonstrating a definitive association between the
transmission of airborne infections and the ventilation of buildings. The severe acute …

[图书][B] Clinical dermatology E-book

TP Habif - 2015 - books.google.com
Identify, treat, and manage the full range of skin diseases with guidance from Clinical
Dermatology: A Color Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy–the world's leading dermatology …