Resurrecting historical lessons from tuberculosis research on airborne transmission relevant to SARS-CoV-2

Hans L. Rieder; Marcel Zwahlen

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Resurrecting historical lessons from tuberculosis research on airborne transmission relevant to SARS-CoV-2

Hans L. Rieder
Marcel Zwahlen

Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w30096
Published: 29.11.2021

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[1] Fennelly KP. Particle sizes of infectious aerosols: implications for infection control. Lancet Respir Med. 2020 Sep;8(9):914–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30323-4

[2] Wang CC, Prather KA, Sznitman J, Jimenez JL, Lakdawala SS, Tufekci Z, et al. Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses. Science. 2021 Aug;373(6558):eabd9149. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd9149

[3] Koch R. The aetiology of tuberculosis. A translation by Berna Pinner and Max Pinner. With an introduction by Allen K. Krause. Am Rev Tuberc. 1932;25:284–323.

[4] Flügge C. Die Verbreitung der Phthise durch staubförmiges Sputum und durch beim Husten verspritzte Tröpfchen. Med Microbiol Immunol (Berl). 1899;30(1):107–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198683

[5] Flügge C. Ways of infection in the case of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Berlin). 1906;5:376–9.

[6] Wells WF. On air-borne infection. Study II. Droplets and droplet nuclei. Am J Hyg. 1934;20:611–8.

[7] Loudon RG, Roberts RM. Droplet expulsion from the respiratory tract. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1967 Mar;95(3):435–42. https://doi.org/10.1164/arrd.1967.95.3.435

[8] Loudon RG, Roberts RM. Singing and the dissemination of tuberculosis. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1968 Aug;98(2):297–300. https://doi.org/10.1164/arrd.1968.98.2.297

[9] Hatch TF. Distribution and deposition of inhaled particles in respiratory tract. Bacteriol Rev. 1961 Sep;25(3):237–40. https://doi.org/10.1128/br.25.3.237-240.1961

[10] Murata T, Sakurai A, Suzuki M, Komoto S, Ide T, Ishihara T, et al. Shedding of viable virus in asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers. MSphere. 2021 May;6(3):e00019–00021. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00019-21

[11] Marks M, Millat-Martinez P, Ouchi D, Roberts CH, Alemany A, Corbacho-Monné M, et al. Transmission of COVID-19 in 282 clusters in Catalonia, Spain: a cohort study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 May;21(5):629–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30985-3

[12] Randall K, Ewing ET, Marr LC, Jimenez JL, Bourouiba L. How did we get here: what are droplets and aerosols and how far do they go? A historical perspective on the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases. SSRN, 2021. (Accessed 2021 October 24, at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3829873)