Back
Top 32%
21.5%
Top 22%
8.7%
#1
6.2%
#1
4.9%
Top 10%
3.7%
Top 5%
2.7%
Top 3%
1.9%
Top 7%
1.9%
Top 8%
1.9%
Top 8%
1.9%
Top 55%
1.5%
Top 18%
1.5%
Top 20%
1.5%
Top 44%
1.5%
Top 3%
1.5%
Top 3%
1.3%
Top 10%
1.3%
Top 17%
1.3%
Top 4%
1.1%
Top 12%
0.9%
Top 6%
0.9%
Top 7%
0.9%
Top 9%
0.9%
Top 15%
0.7%
Top 7%
0.7%
Top 11%
0.7%
Top 9%
0.7%
Top 35%
0.7%
Top 7%
0.7%
Efficacy of a patient isolation hood in reducing exposure to airborne infectious virus in a simulated healthcare setting
2022-07-29
infectious diseases
Title + abstract only
View on medRxiv
Show abstract
BackgroundHealthcare workers treating patients with SARS-CoV-2 are at risk of infection from patient-emitted virus-laden aerosols. We quantified the reduction of airborne infectious virus in a simulated hospital room when a ventilated patient isolation (McMonty) hood was in use. MethodsWe nebulised 109 plaque forming units (PFU) of bacteriophage PhiX174 virus into a 35.1m3 room with a hood active or inactive. The airborne concentration of infectious virus was measured by BioSpot-VIVAS and settl...
Predicted journal destinations
1
PLOS ONE
1737 training papers
2
Scientific Reports
701 training papers
3
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
17 training papers
4
Journal of Hospital Infection
21 training papers
5
Clinical Infectious Diseases
219 training papers
6
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
124 training papers
7
Science of The Total Environment
80 training papers
8
BMC Infectious Diseases
110 training papers
9
Frontiers in Medicine
99 training papers
10
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
115 training papers
11
BMJ Open
553 training papers
12
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
116 training papers
13
Frontiers in Public Health
135 training papers
14
Nature Communications
483 training papers
15
Journal of Infection
64 training papers
16
European Respiratory Journal
44 training papers
17
Emerging Infectious Diseases
84 training papers
18
JAMA Network Open
125 training papers
19
Royal Society Open Science
49 training papers
20
Journal of Medical Virology
95 training papers
21
Journal of Clinical Virology
54 training papers
22
Clinical Microbiology and Infection
54 training papers
23
Epidemics
96 training papers
24
Eurosurveillance
77 training papers
25
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
77 training papers
26
Viruses
79 training papers
27
PeerJ
46 training papers
28
PLOS Global Public Health
287 training papers
29
Microbiology Spectrum
86 training papers