Ventilation strategies and design impacts on indoor airborne transmission: A review

N Izadyar, W Miller - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the indoor airborne transmission issue to the forefront.
Although ventilation systems provide clean air and dilute indoor contaminated air, there is …

[HTML][HTML] Ventilation control for airborne transmission of human exhaled bio-aerosols in buildings

H Qian, X Zheng - Journal of thoracic disease, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The emergence of respiratory diseases, ie, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
epidemic in 2003, H1N1 influenza epidemic in 2011 and Middle East respiratory syndrome …

A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19

MZ Bazant, JWM Bush - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The current revival of the American economy is being predicated on social distancing,
specifically the Six-Foot Rule, a guideline that offers little protection from pathogen-bearing …

Transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 by inhalation of respiratory aerosol in the Skagit Valley Chorale superspreading event

SL Miller, WW Nazaroff, JL Jimenez, A Boerstra… - Indoor …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract During the 2020 COVID‐19 pandemic, an outbreak occurred following attendance
of a symptomatic index case at a weekly rehearsal on 10 March of the Skagit Valley Chorale …

CO2 concentration monitoring inside educational buildings as a strategic tool to reduce the risk of Sars-CoV-2 airborne transmission

A Di Gilio, J Palmisani, M Pulimeno, F Cerino… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to avoid SARS-CoV-2 transmission inside educational buildings and promote the
safe reopening of schools, the Italian Government, in line with the other European countries …

Factors involved in the aerosol transmission of infection and control of ventilation in healthcare premises

JW Tang, Y Li, I Eames, PKS Chan… - Journal of Hospital …, 2006 - Elsevier
The epidemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 highlighted both short-
and long-range transmission routes, ie between infected patients and healthcare workers …

Review and comparison between the Wells–Riley and dose‐response approaches to risk assessment of infectious respiratory diseases

GN Sze To, CYH Chao - Indoor air, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Infection risk assessment is very useful in understanding the transmission dynamics of
infectious diseases and in predicting the risk of these diseases to the public. Quantitative …

The transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in high burden settings

TA Yates, PY Khan, GM Knight, JG Taylor… - The Lancet infectious …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Unacceptable levels of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission are noted in high burden
settings and a renewed focus on reducing person-to-person transmission in these …

Natural ventilation for the prevention of airborne contagion

AR Escombe, CC Oeser, RH Gilman… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Background Institutional transmission of airborne infections such as tuberculosis (TB) is an
important public health problem, especially in resource-limited settings where protective …

Monitoring carbon dioxide to quantify the risk of indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19

MZ Bazant, O Kodio, AE Cohen, K Khan, Z Gu… - Flow, 2021 - cambridge.org
A new guideline for mitigating indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19 prescribes a limit
on the time spent in a shared space with an infected individual (Bazant & Bush, Proceedings …