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ArticleFuture science OA2022

Adherence of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant to a surgical mask and N95 respirators.

Ana C Lorenzo-Leal, Selvarani Vimalanathan, Horacio Bach

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Article in Future science OA, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ana C Lorenzo-LealFaculty of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3Z6, Canada.
Selvarani VimalanathanFaculty of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3Z6, Canada.
Horacio BachFaculty of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3Z6, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7740-9299
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of facial protection has been adopted globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We dissected four respirators and one surgical mask into layers to determine whether or not the virus adheres to them. These individual layers were contaminated with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, and its release by vortexing was performed. Samples were used to infect Vero cells, and a plaque assay was used to evaluate the adherence of the virus to the layers. Results showed that a cumulative log reduction of the layers reduced the load of the virus by at least sixfold. Our study confirms the effectiveness of facial protection in reducing the transmission and/or infection of SARS-CoV-2.

Indexed as

coronavirusCOVID-19facial protectionmaskrespiratorSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID36248067
PMCPMC9540236
OpenAlexW4290629561

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Registered trials

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