Abstract
This JAMA Insights Clinical Update discusses the need to better understand the dynamics of respiratory disease transmission by better characterizing transmission routes, the role of patient physiology in shaping them, and best approaches for source control in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Keywords
MedicineContext (archaeology)Transmission (telecommunications)OutbreakCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Intensive care medicineSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Airborne transmission2019-20 coronavirus outbreakDisease transmissionDiseaseVirologyPathologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)Telecommunications
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- 2020
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- article
- Volume
- 323
- Issue
- 18
- Pages
- 1837-1838
- Citations
- 1127
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Lydia Bourouiba
(2020).
Turbulent Gas Clouds and Respiratory Pathogen Emissions.
JAMA
, 323
(18)
, 1837-1838.
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.4756
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- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.2020.4756