Block the spread: barriers to transmission of influenza viruses

V Le Sage, AC Lowen… - Annual Review of …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Respiratory viruses, such as influenza viruses, cause significant morbidity and mortality
worldwide through seasonal epidemics and sporadic pandemics. Influenza viruses transmit …

Review of factors affecting virus inactivation in aerosols and droplets

AK Longest, NC Rockey… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The inactivation of viruses in aerosol particles (aerosols) and droplets depends on many
factors, but the precise mechanisms of inactivation are not known. The system involves …

[HTML][HTML] Indoor air humidity revisited: Impact on acute symptoms, work productivity, and risk of influenza and COVID-19 infection

P Wolkoff - International journal of hygiene and environmental …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Recent epidemiological and experimental findings reconfirm that low indoor air humidity (dry
air) increases the prevalence of acute eye and airway symptoms in offices, result in lower …

Antimicrobial efficacy, mode of action and in vivo use of hypochlorous acid (HOCl) for prevention or therapeutic support of infections

D Boecker, Z Zhang, R Breves, F Herth… - GMS Hygiene and …, 2023‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The objective is to provide a comprehensive overview of the rapidly develo** field of the
current state of research on in vivo use of hypochlorous acid (HOCl) to aid infection …

[HTML][HTML] Hemagglutinin stability as a key determinant of influenza A virus transmission via air

II Tosheva, KS Saygan, SMA Mijnhardt… - Current Opinion in …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
To cause pandemics, zoonotic respiratory viruses need to adapt to replication in and spread
between humans, either via (indirect or direct) contact or through the air via droplets and …

Size-resolved elemental composition of respiratory particles in three healthy subjects

AJ Prussin, Z Cheng, W Leng, S China… - … Science & Technology …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
The chemical composition of respiratory particles is of interest because the viability of any
viruses and bacteria in the particles has been shown to depend on this factor. Using …

The neuraminidase activity of influenza A virus determines the strain-specific sensitivity to neutralization by respiratory mucus

AN Iseli, MO Pohl, I Glas, E Gaggioli… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - journals.asm.org
Respiratory mucus lining the airway epithelium constitutes an important first line of defense
against infection with influenza A virus (IAV). Previous studies suggested that the inhibitory …

Salt supersaturation as an accelerator of Influenza A virus inactivation in 1 μL droplets

A Schaub, B Luo, SC David, I Glas… - Environmental …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Influenza A virus (IAV) spreads through exhaled aerosol particles and larger droplets.
Estimating the stability of IAV is challenging and depends on factors such as the respiratory …

A quanta-independent approach for the assessment of strategies to reduce the risk of airborne infection

A Aganovic, J Kurnitski, P Wargocki - Science of The Total Environment, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Wells-Riley model is extensively used for retrospective and prospective
modelling of the risk of airborne transmission of infection in indoor spaces. It is also used …

Toward standardized aerovirology: A critical review of existing results and methodologies

R Groth, S Niazi, HP Oswin, AE Haddrell… - … science & technology, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Understanding the airborne survival of viruses is important for public health and
epidemiological modeling and potentially to develop mitigation strategies to minimize the …