Breathing, speaking, coughing or sneezing: What drives transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2?

V Stadnytskyi, P Anfinrud, A Bax - Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The SARS‐CoV‐2 virus is highly contagious, as demonstrated by numerous well‐
documented superspreading events. The infection commonly starts in the upper respiratory …

Global public health implications of human exposure to viral contaminated water

AA Lanrewaju, AM Enitan-Folami, S Sabiu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Enteric viruses are common waterborne pathogens found in environmental water bodies
contaminated with either raw or partially treated sewage discharge. Examples of these …

The airborne lifetime of small speech droplets and their potential importance in SARS-CoV-2 transmission

V Stadnytskyi, CE Bax, A Bax… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Speech droplets generated by asymptomatic carriers of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are increasingly considered to be a likely mode of disease …

Why do ventilation strategies matter in controlling infectious airborne particles? A comprehensive numerical analysis in isolation ward

H Tan, KY Wong, MHD Othman, HY Kek… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
A proper ventilation strategy in an isolation ward could promote better indoor air quality for
the occupants. This could also reduce the risk of immunocompromised patients contracting …

Ambient carbon dioxide concentration correlates with SARS-CoV-2 aerostability and infection risk

A Haddrell, H Oswin, M Otero-Fernandez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
An improved understanding of the underlying physicochemical properties of respiratory
aerosol that influence viral infectivity may open new avenues to mitigate the transmission of …

Computational characterization of inhaled droplet transport to the nasopharynx

S Basu - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
How human respiratory physiology and the transport phenomena associated with inhaled
airflow in the upper airway proceed to impact transmission of SARS-CoV-2, leading to the …

Increased airborne transmission of COVID-19 with new variants, implications for health policies

BR Rowe, A Canosa, A Meslem, F Rowe - Building and environment, 2022 - Elsevier
New COVID-19 variants, either of higher viral load such as delta or higher contagiousness
like omicron, can lead to higher airborne transmission than historical strains. This paper …

Matters of size: genetic bottlenecks in virus infection and their potential impact on evolution

MP Zwart, SF Elena - Annual Review of Virology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
For virus infections of multicellular hosts, narrow genetic bottlenecks during transmission
and within-host spread appear to be widespread. These bottlenecks will affect the …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing the dominant SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes toward an ab initio disease spread model

S Chaudhuri, S Basu, A Saha - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Identifying the relative importance of the different transmission routes of the SARS-CoV-2
virus is an urgent research priority. To that end, the different transmission routes and their …

Transmission bottleneck size estimation from pathogen deep-sequencing data, with an application to human influenza A virus

A Sobel Leonard, DB Weissman, B Greenbaum… - Journal of …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The bottleneck governing infectious disease transmission describes the size of the pathogen
population transferred from the donor to the recipient host. Accurate quantification of the …