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Article: Transmission of Influenza A in a Student Office Based on Realistic Person-to-Person Contact and Surface Touch Behaviour
Title | Transmission of Influenza A in a Student Office Based on Realistic Person-to-Person Contact and Surface Touch Behaviour |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Airborne Close contact Fomite Hand-washing Infection Influenza A Mask Office Surface touch |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Molecular Diversity Preservation International. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.org/ijerph |
Citation | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018, v. 15 n. 8, article no. 1699 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Influenza A viruses result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide each year. In this study, influenza A transmission in a graduate student office is simulated via long-range airborne, fomite, and close contact routes based on real data from more than 3500 person-to-person contacts and 127,000 surface touches obtained by video-camera. The long-range airborne, fomite and close contact routes contribute to 54.3%, 4.2% and 44.5% of influenza A infections, respectively. For the fomite route, 59.8%, 38.1% and 2.1% of viruses are transmitted to the hands of students from private surfaces around the infected students, the students themselves and other susceptible students, respectively. The intranasal dose via fomites of the students’ bodies, belongings, computers, desks, chairs and public facilities are 8.0%, 6.8%, 13.2%, 57.8%, 9.3% and 4.9%, respectively. The intranasal dose does not monotonously increase or decrease with the virus transfer rate between hands and surfaces. Mask wearing is much more useful than hand washing for control of influenza A in the tested office setting. Regular cleaning of high-touch surfaces, which can reduce the infection risk by 2.14%, is recommended and is much more efficient than hand-washing. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272225 |
ISSN | 2019 Impact Factor: 2.849 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.808 |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhang, N | - |
dc.contributor.author | Li, Y | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-20T10:38:08Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-20T10:38:08Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018, v. 15 n. 8, article no. 1699 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1661-7827 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272225 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Influenza A viruses result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide each year. In this study, influenza A transmission in a graduate student office is simulated via long-range airborne, fomite, and close contact routes based on real data from more than 3500 person-to-person contacts and 127,000 surface touches obtained by video-camera. The long-range airborne, fomite and close contact routes contribute to 54.3%, 4.2% and 44.5% of influenza A infections, respectively. For the fomite route, 59.8%, 38.1% and 2.1% of viruses are transmitted to the hands of students from private surfaces around the infected students, the students themselves and other susceptible students, respectively. The intranasal dose via fomites of the students’ bodies, belongings, computers, desks, chairs and public facilities are 8.0%, 6.8%, 13.2%, 57.8%, 9.3% and 4.9%, respectively. The intranasal dose does not monotonously increase or decrease with the virus transfer rate between hands and surfaces. Mask wearing is much more useful than hand washing for control of influenza A in the tested office setting. Regular cleaning of high-touch surfaces, which can reduce the infection risk by 2.14%, is recommended and is much more efficient than hand-washing. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Molecular Diversity Preservation International. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.org/ijerph | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Airborne | - |
dc.subject | Close contact | - |
dc.subject | Fomite | - |
dc.subject | Hand-washing | - |
dc.subject | Infection | - |
dc.subject | Influenza A | - |
dc.subject | Mask | - |
dc.subject | Office | - |
dc.subject | Surface touch | - |
dc.title | Transmission of Influenza A in a Student Office Based on Realistic Person-to-Person Contact and Surface Touch Behaviour | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Zhang, N: zhangnan@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Li, Y: liyg@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Li, Y=rp00151 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/ijerph15081699 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 30096894 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC6121424 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85051409819 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 298820 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 15 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 8 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 1699 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 1699 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000443168200139 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Switzerland | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1660-4601 | - |