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ArticleIndoor air2022

The impact of ventilation rate on reducing the microorganisms load in the air and on surfaces in a room-sized chamber.

Waseem Hiwar, Marco-Felipe King, Harith Kharrufa, Emma Tidswell, Louise A Fletcher, Catherine J Noakes

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Article in Indoor air, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Waseem HiwarSchool of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3742-3456
Marco-Felipe KingSchool of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7010-476X
Harith KharrufaInformatics and Telecommunications Public Company (ITPC), MOC, Mosul, Iraq.
Emma TidswellSchool of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Louise A FletcherSchool of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Catherine J NoakesSchool of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
University of Leeds · GBUniversity of Mosul · IQ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are a global challenge incurring mortalities and high treatment costs. The environment plays an important role in transmission due to contaminated air and surfaces. This includes microorganisms' deposition from the air onto surfaces. Quantifying the deposition rate of microorganisms enables understanding surface contamination and can inform strategies to mitigate the infection risk. We developed and validated a novel Automated Multiplate Passive Air Sampling (AMPAS) device. This enables sequences of passive deposition samples to be collected over a controlled time period without human intervention. AMPAS was used with air sampling to measure the effect of ventilation rate and spatial location on the deposition rate of aerosolized Staphylococcus aureus in a 32 m

Indexed as

Air Pollution, IndoorCross InfectionHospitalsHumansStaphylococcus aureusVentilationaerosol transmissionAMPASbioaerosols depositioninfection mitigationStaphylococcus aureussurface decontaminationventilation rate

Identifiers

PMID36437677
PMCPMC9828490
OpenAlexW4309562036

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Registered trials

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