ReviewRendiconti Lincei. Scienze fisiche e naturali2020
Biological fluid dynamics of airborne COVID-19 infection.
Review in Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze fisiche e naturali, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 96 citations in OpenAlex.
- A meta-analysis result: Uneven influences of season, geo-spatial scale and latitude on relationship between meteorological factors and the COVID-19 transmission.Environmental research · 2022Pooled it
- Are medical procedures that induce coughing or involve respiratory suctioning associated with increased generation of aerosols and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection? A rapid systematic review.The Journal of hospital infection · 2021Pooled it
- Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission by Airborne Droplets in a Restaurant Outbreak: A CFD Approach.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025Article
- Complementary Pocket and Network-Based Approach to Search for Spike Protein Allosteric Pocket Sites.ACS omega · 2023Article
- Impact of supplementary air filtration on aerosols and particulate matter in a UK hospital ward: a case study.The Journal of hospital infection · 2023Article
- Interferometric laser imaging for respiratory droplets sizing.Experiments in fluids · 2023Article
- Prediction of respiratory droplets evolution for safer academic facilities planning amid COVID-19 and future pandemics: A numerical approach.Journal of building engineering · 2022Article
- Mobile human ad hoc networks: A communication engineering viewpoint on interhuman airborne pathogen transmission.Nano communication networks · 2022Article
- A comprehensive review on facemask manufacturing, testing, and its environmental impacts.Journal of industrial textiles · 2022Review
- Puff turbulence in the limit of strong buoyancy.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2022Article
- Transport and evaporation of virus-containing droplets exhaled by men and women in typical cough events.Meccanica · 2022Article
- Merits and Limitations of Mathematical Modeling and Computational Simulations in Mitigation of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Review.Archives of computational methods in engineering : state of the art reviews · 2022Review
- An integrated simulation framework for the prevention and mitigation of pandemics caused by airborne pathogens.Network modeling and analysis in health informatics and bioinformatics · 2022Article
- Human Responses in Public Health Emergencies for Infectious Disease Control: An Overview of Controlled Topologies for Biomedical Applications.Contrast media & molecular imaging · 2022Review
- What is suitable social distancing for people wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic?Indoor air · 2022Article
- COVID-19: A review of newly formed viral clades, pathophysiology, therapeutic strategies and current vaccination tasks.International journal of biological macromolecules · 2021Review
- Breathing, speaking, coughing or sneezing: What drives transmission of SARS-CoV-2?Journal of internal medicine · 2021Review
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- Molecular Communication Theoretical Modeling and Analysis of SARS-CoV2 Transmission in Human Respiratory System.IEEE transactions on molecular, biological, and multi-scale communications · 2021Article
- Fluid dynamics of respiratory droplets in the context of COVID-19: Airborne and surfaceborne transmissions.Physics of fluids (Woodbury, N.Y. : 1994) · 2021Review
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
abstractWe review the state of knowledge on the bio-fluid dynamic mechanisms involved in the transmission of the infection from SARS-CoV-2. The relevance of the subject stems from the key role of airborne virus transmission by viral particles released by an infected person via coughing, sneezing, speaking or simply breathing. Speech droplets generated by asymptomatic disease carriers are also considered for their viral load and potential for infection. Proper understanding of the mechanics of the complex processes whereby the two-phase flow emitted by an infected individual disperses into the environment would allow us to infer from first principles the practical rules to be imposed on social distancing and on the use of facial and eye protection, which to date have been adopted on a rather empirical basis. These measures need compelling scientific validation. A deeper understanding of the relevant biological fluid dynamics would also allow us to evaluate the contrasting effects of natural or forced ventilation of environments on the transmission of contagion: the risk decreases as the viral load is diluted by mixing effects but contagion is potentially allowed to reach larger distances from the infected source. To that end, our survey supports the view that a formal assessment of a number of open problems is needed. They are outlined in the discussion. GRAPHIC ABSTRACT:
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