ReviewApplied and environmental microbiology2017
Aerobiology: Experimental Considerations, Observations, and Future Tools.
Review in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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24 citing papers in PubMed.
- Loss of Infectivity of Influenza Virus and SARS-CoV‑2 during Aerosol Sampling.Environmental science & technology letters · 2026Article
- Organic components modulate the morphology of respirable aerovirology-relevant aerosols.Aerosol science and technology : the journal of the American Association for Aerosol Research · 2026Article
- Organic Components Modulate the Morphology of Respirable Aerovirology-Relevant Aerosols.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Pathogens on fire: a scoping review of smoke-borne pathogen ecology in the One Health framework.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Microbial Aerosols in Livestock Farming Environment: A Threat That Cannot Be Ignored.Veterinary sciences · 2025Review
- Study on the Effectiveness of a Copper Electrostatic Filtration System "Aerok 1.0" for Air Disinfection.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Aerobiology of the Family Lamiaceae: Novel Perspectives with Special Reference to Volatiles Emission.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Laboratory studies on the infectivity of human respiratory viruses: Experimental conditions, detections, and resistance to the atmospheric environment.Fundamental research · 2024Review
- Dependence of aerosol-borne influenza A virus infectivity on relative humidity and aerosol composition.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Large-scale evaluation of microorganism inactivation by bipolar ionization and photocatalytic devices.Building and environment · 2023Article
- Characterization and DNA Stable-Isotope Probing of Methanotrophic Bioaerosols.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- COVID-19 pandemic lesson learned- critical parameters and research needs for UVC inactivation of viral aerosols.Journal of hazardous materials advances · 2022Review
- Microbial contamination, antimicrobial resistance and biofilm formation of bacteria isolated from a high-throughput pig abattoir.Italian journal of food safety · 2022Article
- Bioaerosols and airborne transmission: Integrating biological complexity into our perspective.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
- Bacterial Surface Detachment during Nebulization with Contaminated Reusable Home Nebulizers.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Detection and characterization of bioaerosol emissions from wastewater treatment plants: Challenges and opportunities.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Aerosol Test Chambers: Current State and Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- The impact of outdoor air pollution on COVID-19: a review of evidence fromEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2021Review
- Relative humidity in droplet and airborne transmission of disease.Journal of biological physics · 2021Review
- Transformative Approach To Investigate the Microphysical Factors Influencing Airborne Transmission of Pathogens.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Understanding airborne survival and decay of microorganisms is important for a range of public health and biodefense applications, including epidemiological and risk analysis modeling. Techniques for experimental aerosol generation, retention in the aerosol phase, and sampling require careful consideration and understanding so that they are representative of the conditions the bioaerosol would experience in the environment. This review explores the current understanding of atmospheric transport in relation to advances and limitations of aerosol generation, maintenance in the aerosol phase, and sampling techniques. Potential tools for the future are examined at the interface between atmospheric chemistry, aerosol physics, and molecular microbiology where the heterogeneity and variability of aerosols can be explored at the single-droplet and single-microorganism levels within a bioaerosol. The review highlights the importance of method comparison and validation in bioaerosol research and the benefits that the application of novel techniques could bring to increasing the understanding of aerobiological phenomena in diverse research fields, particularly during the progression of atmospheric transport, where complex interdependent physicochemical and biological processes occur within bioaerosol particles.
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