Background Effectively implementing strategies to curb SARS-CoV-2 transmission requires
understanding who is contagious and when. Although viral load on upper respiratory swabs …

Diagnostic tests were heralded as crucial during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
pandemic with most of the key methods using bioanalytical approaches that detected larger …

The persistent debate about the modes of transmission of SARS-CoV2 and preventive
measures has illustrated the limits of our knowledge regarding the measures to be …

In recent years, the proliferation of wearable healthcare devices has marked a revolutionary
shift in the personal health monitoring and management paradigm. These devices, ranging …

Human exhaled breath is becoming an attractive clinical source as it is foreseen to enable
noninvasive diagnosis of many diseases. Because mask devices can be used for efficiently …

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 …

Dear Editor, Mellon and colleagues reported mpox virus (MPXV) DNA in air samples from a
hospital room dedicated to mpox-infected patients. 1 However, longitudinal analysis of serial …

Current models to determine the risk of airborne disease infection are typically based on a
backward quantification of observed infections, leading to uncertainties, eg, due to the lack …

This study used an adapted N95 mask sampling to understand the effect of COVID‐19
vaccination in the context of circulating variants on infected individuals to emit the virus into …

Introduction SARS-CoV-2 may transmit across vaccinated cohorts during practical clinical
examinations. We sought to assess the feasibility of facemask sampling (FMS) to identify …