Informing optimal environmental influenza interventions: how the host, agent, and environment alter dominant routes of transmission.

ABSTRACT: Influenza can be transmitted through respirable (small airborne particles), inspirable (intermediate size), direct-droplet-spray, and contact modes. How these modes are affected by features of the virus strain (infectivity, survivability, transferability, or shedding profiles), host population (behavior, susceptibility, or shedding profiles), and environment (host density, surface area to volume ratios, or host movement patterns) have only recently come under investigation. A discrete-event, continuous-time, stochastic transmission model was constructed to analyze the environmental processes through which a virus passes from one person to another via different transmission modes, and explore which factors increase or decrease different modes of transmission. With the exception of the inspi

SUBMITTER: Spicknall IH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2965740 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature