A large-volume nebulizer would not be an infectious source for severe acute respiratory syndrome

Gwo-Hwa Wan; Ying-Huang Tsai; Yao-Kuang Wu; Kuo-Chien Tsao

doi:10.1086/502353

A large-volume nebulizer would not be an infectious source for severe acute respiratory syndrome

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2004 Dec;25(12):1113-5. doi: 10.1086/502353.

Authors

Gwo-Hwa Wan¹, Ying-Huang Tsai, Yao-Kuang Wu, Kuo-Chien Tsao

Affiliation

¹ Department of Respiratory Care, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, Republic of China.

PMID: 15636302
DOI: 10.1086/502353

Abstract

We attempted to detect the presence of airborne SARS-coronavirus (CoV) in a healthcare setting when a patient with SARS used a humidifier or a large-volume nebulizer (LVN). All of the air samples from the humidifier and LVN were found to have negative SARS-CoV-specific DNA products.

Publication types

Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

Aerosols
DNA, Viral / analysis
Equipment Contamination*
Humans
Nebulizers and Vaporizers / microbiology*
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / transmission*

Substances

Aerosols
DNA, Viral