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Interventions to prevent surface transmission of an infectious virus based on real human touch behavior: a case study of the norovirus

OBJECTIVES: Infectious viruses (e.g., SARS-CoV-2, norovirus) can transmit through surfaces. Norovirus has infected millions of individuals annually. Interventions on norovirus transmission in high-risk indoor environment are important. METHODS: This study focused on a restaurant in Guangzhou, China....

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Autores principales: Jin, Tianyi, Chen, Xuguang, Nishio, Masaya, Zhuang, Linan, Shiomi, Hiroyuki, Tonosaki, Yosuke, Yokohata, Ryoji, King, Marco-Felipe, Kang, Min, Fujii, Kenkichi, Zhang, Nan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9148625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35649497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2022.05.047
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Sumario:OBJECTIVES: Infectious viruses (e.g., SARS-CoV-2, norovirus) can transmit through surfaces. Norovirus has infected millions of individuals annually. Interventions on norovirus transmission in high-risk indoor environment are important. METHODS: This study focused on a restaurant in Guangzhou, China. More than 41,000 touches by both diners and staff members were collected using video cameras. A surface transmission model was developed and combined with these real human touch behaviors to analyze the effectiveness of different norovirus prevention strategies. RESULTS: When the virus carrier was a diner, the virus intake fraction of diners in the same table was the highest. Increasing the touch frequency on personal private surfaces would reduce the virus exposure. The virus intake fraction was reduced by 18.4% on average if public surfaces were not touched. Optimization on surface materials could reduce the virus intake fraction by 86.6%. Additionally, disinfecting tablecloths, clothes of diners, and chairs were the three most effective surface disinfection strategies. CONCLUSION: Controlling human touch behavior (e.g., reducing the self-touches on mucous membranes) is more effective than surface disinfection in controlling norovirus transmission, but surface disinfection cannot be ignored because human behavior is difficult to be controlled.