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SUBMITTER: Amato-Lourenco LF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8494494 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Amato-Lourenço Luís Fernando LF de Souza Xavier Costa Natália N Dantas Kátia Cristina KC Dos Santos Galvão Luciana L Moralles Fernando Negri FN Lombardi Suzette Cleuza Ferreira Spina SCFS Júnior Alfredo Mendroni AM Lindoso José Angelo Lauletta JAL Ando Rômulo Augusto RA Lima Felipe Gallego FG Carvalho-Oliveira Regiani R Mauad Thais T
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) 20211007 Pt A
Microplastics (MPs) have been reported in the outdoor/indoor air of urban centres, raising health concerns due to the potential for human exposure. Since aerosols are considered one of the routes of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission and may bind to the surface of airborne MPs, we hypothesize that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) could be associated with the levels of MPs in the air. Our goal was to quantify the SARS-CoV-2 RNA and MPs present in the tota ...[more]