Air, Surface Environmental, and Personal Protective Equipment Contamination by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) From a Symptomatic Patient.

By S. Ong, Yian Kim Tan, P. Chia, Tau-Hong Lee, O. Ng, Michelle Su Yen Wong, K. Marimuthu. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020

2,082 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This study documents results of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of environmental surfaces and personal protective equipment surrounding 3 COVID-19 patients in isolation rooms in a Singapore hospital.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Modeling and Simulation, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• To mask or not to mask: Modeling the potential for face mask use by the general public to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, background): “Manikin studies seem to recommend masks as especially valuable under coughing conditions for both source control (Patel et al., 2016) and prevention (Lai et al., 2012).”
• Presymptomatic Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 — Singapore, January 23–March 16, 2020 (2020, background): “Environmental contamination with SARS-CoV-2 has been documented (8), and the possibility of indirect transmission through fomites by presymptomatic persons is also a concern.”
• Contact Tracing Assessment of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in Taiwan and Risk at Different Exposure Periods Before and After Symptom Onset (2020, neutral): “40-59 38 (25) 24 (32) 175 (25) 557 (30)”
• Airborne Transmission Route of COVID-19: Why 2 Meters/6 Feet of Inter-Personal Distance Could Not Be Enough (2020, background): “(2020) but this negative evidence is likely to be related to a poor air sampling experimental design [27].”
• Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Pathogenesis (2020, neutral): “, fomites) and contribute to human transmission events [59,61].”
• How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised? (2020, positive): “incomplete, several hospital-based studies have performed air-sampling for SARS-COV-2, including one published paper (Ong et al. 2020), one early-release paper (Guo et al.”