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 …

[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 …

The dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity with changes in aerosol microenvironment

HP Oswin, AE Haddrell, M Otero-Fernandez… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Understanding the factors that influence the airborne survival of viruses such as severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in aerosols is important for …

Ambient carbon dioxide concentration correlates with SARS-CoV-2 aerostability and infection risk

A Haddrell, H Oswin, M Otero-Fernandez… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
An improved understanding of the underlying physicochemical properties of respiratory
aerosol that influence viral infectivity may open new avenues to mitigate the transmission of …

Differences in airborne stability of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern is impacted by alkalinity of surrogates of respiratory aerosol

A Haddrell, M Otero-Fernandez… - Journal of the …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The mechanistic factors hypothesized to be key drivers for the loss of infectivity of viruses in
the aerosol phase often remain speculative. Using a next-generation bioaerosol technology …

Seasonal influenza viruses decay more rapidly at intermediate humidity in droplets containing saliva compared to respiratory mucus

NC Rockey, V Le Sage, LC Marr… - Applied and …, 2024‏ - journals.asm.org
Expulsions of virus-laden aerosols or droplets from the oral and nasal cavities of an infected
host are an important source of onward respiratory virus transmission. However, the …

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 …

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 …

Dependence of aerosol-borne influenza A virus infectivity on relative humidity and aerosol composition

G Motos, A Schaub, SC David, L Costa… - Frontiers in …, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
We describe a novel biosafety aerosol chamber equipped with state-of-the-art
instrumentation for bubble-bursting aerosol generation, size distribution measurement, and …

Unanswered questions on the airborne transmission of COVID-19

Z Gu, J Han, L Zhang, H Wang, X Luo, X Meng… - Environmental …, 2023‏ - Springer
Policies and measures to control pandemics are often failing. While biological factors
controlling transmission are usually well explored, little is known about the environmental …