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Factors involved in the aerosol transmission of infection and control of ventilation in healthcare premises

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Tang, J.W., Li, Y., Eames, I., Chan, P.K.S., Ridgway, G.L.·2006·Journal of Hospital Infection
DOI 10.1016/j.jhin.2006.05.022
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Summary The epidemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 highlighted both short- and long-range transmission routes, i.e. between infected patients and healthcare workers, and between distant locations. With other infections such as tuberculosis, measles and chickenpox, the concept of aerosol transmission is so well accepted that isolation of such patients is the norm. With current concerns about a possible approaching influenza pandemic, the control of transmission via infectious air has become more important. Therefore, the aim of this review is to describe the factors involved in: (1) the generation of an infectious aerosol, (2) the transmission of infectious droplets or droplet nuclei from this aerosol, and (3) the potential for inhalation of such droplets or droplet nuclei by a susceptible host. On this basis, recommendations are made to improve the control of aerosol-transmitted infections in hospitals as well as in the design and construction of future isolation facilities.

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Authors
Tang, J. W., Li, Y., Eames, I., Chan, P. K. S., & Ridgway, G. L.
Venue
Journal of Hospital Infection
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2006-10
Volume
64
Issue
2
Pages
100-114
ISSN
0195-6701 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jhin.2006.05.022
OpenAlex
W2038062067
Cited by
667
References
4
FWCI
11.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
bronze
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

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How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Factors involved in the aerosol transmission of infection and control of ventilation in healthcare premises. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1016/j.jhin.2006.05.022
The paper
Tang, J. W., Li, Y., Eames, I., Chan, P. K. S., & Ridgway, G. L. (2006). Factors involved in the aerosol transmission of infection and control of ventilation in healthcare premises. Journal of Hospital Infection. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2006.05.022

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.