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metadata.artigo.dc.title: Environmental contamination of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces, air-conditioner and ventilation systems
metadata.artigo.dc.creator: Mouchtouri, Varvara A.
Koureas, Michalis
Kyritsi, Maria
Vontas, Alexandros
Kourentis, Leonidas
Sapounas, Spyros
Rigakos, George
Petinaki, Efthimia
metadata.artigo.dc.subject: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
COVID-19
Surfaces
Air
Food safety
Outbreak
Disinfection
Waste
Ventilation system
Air-conditioning system
Nursing home
Sewage
Airborne
metadata.artigo.dc.publisher: Elsevier
metadata.artigo.dc.date.issued: Sep-2020
metadata.artigo.dc.identifier.citation: MOUCHTOURI, V. A. et al. Environmental contamination of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces, air-conditioner and ventilation systems. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, [S.l.], v. 230, Sept. 2020.
metadata.artigo.dc.description.abstract: Background COVID-19 can be transmitted directly through respiratory droplets or indirectly through fomites. SARS-CoV-2 has been detected on various environmental surfaces, air samples and sewage in hospital and community settings. Methods Environmental samples were collected from a ferryboat during a COVID-19 ongoing outbreak investigation and a nursing home and from three COVID-19 isolation hospital wards and a long-term care facility where asymptomatic COVID-19 cases were isolated. Samples were tested by real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction. Results SARS-CoV-2 was detected on swab samples taken from surfaces of food preparation and service areas, hospital isolation wards, an air exhaust duct screen, air-conditioning filter, sewage treatment unit and air sample during investigations conducted in response to COVID-19 outbreaks on a ferryboat, nursing home, isolation facility and COVID-19 hospital wards. Discussion Food preparation areas and utensils can be contaminated during COVID-19 outbreaks. Respiratory droplets/nuclei from infected persons can be displaced by the air flow and deposited on surfaces. It can be assumed that in the same manner, air flow could transfer and deposit infected respiratory droplets/nuclei from infected persons to the mucous membranes of persons standing against the air flow direction.
metadata.artigo.dc.identifier.uri: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1438463920305459
http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/42779
metadata.artigo.dc.language: en_US
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