ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2020
Transformative Approach To Investigate the Microphysical Factors Influencing Airborne Transmission of Pathogens.
Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- The microphysics of surrogates of exhaled aerosols from the upper respiratory tract.Aerosol science and technology : the journal of the American Association for Aerosol Research · 2024Article
- An assessment of the airborne longevity of group A Streptococcus.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2024Article
- Characterization and DNA Stable-Isotope Probing of Methanotrophic Bioaerosols.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Mucin Transiently Sustains Coronavirus Infectivity through Heterogenous Changes in Phase Morphology of Evaporating Aerosol.Viruses · 2022Article
- The dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity with changes in aerosol microenvironment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Evidence for a semisolid phase state of aerosols and droplets relevant to the airborne and surface survival of pathogens.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Airborne virus transmission via respiratory droplets: Effects of droplet evaporation and sedimentation.Current opinion in colloid & interface science · 2021Review
- Accurate Representations of the Microphysical Processes Occurring during the Transport of Exhaled Aerosols and Droplets.ACS central science · 2021Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Emerging outbreaks of airborne pathogenic infections worldwide, such as the current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, have raised the need to understand parameters affecting the airborne survival of microbes in order to develop measures for effective infection control. We report a novel experimental strategy, TAMBAS (tandem approach for microphysical and biological assessment of airborne microorganism survival), to explore the synergistic interactions between the physicochemical and biological processes that impact airborne microbe survival in aerosol droplets. This innovative approach provides a unique and detailed understanding of the processes taking place from aerosol droplet generation through to equilibration and viability decay in the local environment, elucidating decay mechanisms not previously described. The impact of evaporation kinetics, solute hygroscopicity and concentration, particle morphology, and equilibrium particle size on airborne survival are reported, using
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