ArticleAntimicrobial resistance and infection control2020
Use of medical face masks versus particulate respirators as a component of personal protective equipment for health care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- A Cross-Sectional, Questionnaire-Based Survey on Air Infection Control among Romanian People.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic?Indoor air · 2022Review
- Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne.Nature · 2022Article
- Impact of respirator versus surgical masks on SARS-CoV-2 acquisition in healthcare workers: a prospective multicentre cohort.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2022Observational
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- Healthcare institutions' recommendation regarding the use of FFP-2 masks and SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among healthcare workers: a multicenter longitudinal cohort study.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2022Article
- Development of a customized mask retainer for improving the fit performance of surgical masks.PloS one · 2022Article
- Miasmas, mental models and preventive public health: some philosophical reflections on science in the COVID-19 pandemic.Interface focus · 2021Review
- How did we get here: what are droplets and aerosols and how far do they go? A historical perspective on the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases.Interface focus · 2021Article
- Management of donations of personal protective equipment in response to the massive shortage during the COVID-19 health crisis: providing quality equipment to health care workers.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2021Article
- Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Review
- COVID-19 false dichotomies and a comprehensive review of the evidence regarding public health, COVID-19 symptomatology, SARS-CoV-2 transmission, mask wearing, and reinfection.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Review
- COVID-19 and future pandemics: is isolation and social distancing the new norm?Internal medicine journal · 2021Article
- Dismantling myths on the airborne transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2).The Journal of hospital infection · 2021Review
- [Measures to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: nonpharmaceutical and pharmaceutical interventions].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2021Review
- Temporal evolution, most influential studies and sleeping beauties of the coronavirus literature.Scientometrics · 2021Article
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7 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
Currently available evidence supports that the predominant route of human-to-human transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 is through respiratory droplets and/or contact routes. The report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China supports person-to-person droplet and fomite transmission during close unprotected contact with the vast majority of the investigated infection clusters occurring within families, with a household secondary attack rate varying between 3 and 10%, a finding that is not consistent with airborne transmission. The reproduction number (R
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