SARS-CoV-2: air/aerosols and surfaces in laboratory and clinical settings

DX Zhang - Journal of Hospital Infection, 2020 - journalofhospitalinfection.com
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is known to be caused by severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)[1]. Current evidence indicates that …

Stability of SARS-CoV-2 on environmental surfaces and in human excreta

Y Liu, T Li, Y Deng, S Liu… - Journal of …, 2021 - journalofhospitalinfection.com
At the end of 2019, a novel human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged and rapidly spread throughout the world. Although …

Putting a balance on the aerosolization debate around SARS-CoV-2

SJ Dancer, JW Tang, LC Marr… - Journal of …, 2020 - journalofhospitalinfection.com
We were moved to respond to the recent letter on the nature of airborne spread of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)[1]. There is currently intense …

Rethinking environmental contamination and fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the healthcare

H Kanamori - Journal of Infection, 2021 - journalofinfection.com
Experimental studies have reported prolonged survival of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on inanimate surfaces and objects under laboratory …

[HTML][HTML] Putting some context to the aerosolization debate around SARS-CoV-2

A Peters, P Parneix, J Otter, D Pittet - The Journal of hospital …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
New England Journal of Medicine [1]. The experiments reported in this letter compared the
stability of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV-1 in aerosols and on a number of different surfaces …

Confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 airborne dissemination indoors using “COVID-19 traps”

E Orenes-Piñero, D Navas-Carrillo, A Moreno-Docón… - Journal of Infection, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the capacity of SARS-CoV-2 virus to infect by surfaces and by airborne
dissemination has become in one of the most important issues in the world nowadays. Thus …

[PDF][PDF] Sustainability of SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols: should we worry about airborne transmission?

S Romano-Bertrand, LS Aho-Glele… - Journal of Hospital …, 2020 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 is predominantly transmitted by respiratory droplets and contact with
contaminated surfaces, but the role of aerosol is debated. The usual personal protective …

Environmental and aerosolized severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 among hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients

RA Binder, NA Alarja, ER Robie… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract During April and May 2020, we studied 20 patients hospitalized with coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), their hospital rooms (fomites and aerosols), and their close …

COVID-19 global pandemic planning: Presence of SARS-CoV-2 fomites in a university hospital setting

C Bartlett, J Langsjoen, Q Cheng… - Experimental …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
As severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has surged across the
globe, great effort has been expended to understand mechanisms of transmission and …

Coronavirus disease 2019's challenges to infection control dogma regarding respiratory virus transmission

M Klompas, MA Baker, C Rhee - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2022 - academic.oup.com
For much of the first year of the pandemic, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) was believed to spread primarily via large respiratory droplets generated by …