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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Bailey ES
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6142699 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines 20180917
Recognizing that crowded, high-traffic airports and airplanes have been implicated in respiratory disease transmission, we partnered with administrators of Raleigh Durham International Airport (RDU) in conducting a pilot study of aerosol surveillance for respiratory viruses at RDU. From January to March 2018 we used NIOSH 2-stage samplers to collect 150 min aerosol samples in crowded areas at RDU. Four (17%) of the 24 samples were positive for known respiratory pathogens including influenza D vi ...[more]