Ventilation strategies and design impacts on indoor airborne transmission: A review

N Izadyar, W Miller - Building and environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the indoor airborne transmission issue to the forefront.
Although ventilation systems provide clean air and dilute indoor contaminated air, there is …

Nonpharmaceutical measures for pandemic influenza in nonhealthcare settings—personal protective and environmental measures

J **ao, EYC Shiu, H Gao, JY Wong… - Emerging infectious …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There were 3 influenza pandemics in the 20th century, and there has been 1 so far in the
21st century. Local, national, and international health authorities regularly update their plans …

Controversy around airborne versus droplet transmission of respiratory viruses: implication for infection prevention

EYC Shiu, NHL Leung, BJ Cowling - Current opinion in infectious …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Studies that use transmission events as outcome to demonstrate human-to-human
transmission over the aerosol route or quantitative measurement of infectious respiratory …

Ventilation control for airborne transmission of human exhaled bio-aerosols in buildings

H Qian, X Zheng - Journal of thoracic disease, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The emergence of respiratory diseases, ie, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
epidemic in 2003, H1N1 influenza epidemic in 2011 and Middle East respiratory syndrome …

Study on ventilation rates and assessment of infection risks of COVID-19 in an outpatient building

C Li, H Tang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
A modified Wells-Riley model combining the airborne route and close contact route was
proposed to predict the infection risks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in main …

Control of airborne infectious disease in buildings: Evidence and research priorities

PJ Bueno de Mesquita, WW Delp, WR Chan… - Indoor …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of SARS‐CoV‐2 virus has resulted in variants likely to be more readily
transmitted through respiratory aerosols, underscoring the increased potential for indoor …

Airborne transmission of biological agents within the indoor built environment: a multidisciplinary review

CD Argyropoulos, V Skoulou, G Efthimiou… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2023 - Springer
The nature and airborne dispersion of the underestimated biological agents, monitoring,
analysis and transmission among the human occupants into building environment is a major …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of HVAC-systems on the dispersion of infectious aerosols in a cardiac intensive care unit

L Anghel, CG Popovici, C Stătescu, R Sascău… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
At the end of 2019, a variation of a coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, has been identified as
being responsible for a respiratory illness disease (COVID-19). Since ventilation is an …

Environmental factors and particle size shape the community structure of airborne total and pathogenic bacteria in a university campus

T Zhang, M Liu, D Zhou, Z Ma, L Chen, D Wu… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Given the dense population on university campuses, indoor and outdoor airborne bacterial
contamination may lead to the rapid spread of diseases in a university environment …

Building ventilation as an effective disease intervention strategy in a dense indoor contact network in an ideal city

X Gao, J Wei, H Lei, P Xu, BJ Cowling, Y Li - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Emerging diseases may spread rapidly through dense and large urban contact networks,
especially they are transmitted by the airborne route, before new vaccines can be made …