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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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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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author | Jin, Tianyi Chen, Xuguang Nishio, Masaya Zhuang, Linan Shiomi, Hiroyuki Tonosaki, Yosuke Yokohata, Ryoji King, Marco-Felipe Kang, Min Fujii, Kenkichi Zhang, Nan |
author_facet | Jin, Tianyi Chen, Xuguang Nishio, Masaya Zhuang, Linan Shiomi, Hiroyuki Tonosaki, Yosuke Yokohata, Ryoji King, Marco-Felipe Kang, Min Fujii, Kenkichi Zhang, Nan |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-91486252022-05-31 Interventions to prevent surface transmission of an infectious virus based on real human touch behavior: a case study of the norovirus Jin, Tianyi Chen, Xuguang Nishio, Masaya Zhuang, Linan Shiomi, Hiroyuki Tonosaki, Yosuke Yokohata, Ryoji King, Marco-Felipe Kang, Min Fujii, Kenkichi Zhang, Nan Int J Infect Dis Article 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. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2022-09 2022-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9148625/ /pubmed/35649497 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2022.05.047 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Jin, Tianyi Chen, Xuguang Nishio, Masaya Zhuang, Linan Shiomi, Hiroyuki Tonosaki, Yosuke Yokohata, Ryoji King, Marco-Felipe Kang, Min Fujii, Kenkichi Zhang, Nan Interventions to prevent surface transmission of an infectious virus based on real human touch behavior: a case study of the norovirus |
title | Interventions to prevent surface transmission of an infectious virus based on real human touch behavior: a case study of the norovirus |
title_full | Interventions to prevent surface transmission of an infectious virus based on real human touch behavior: a case study of the norovirus |
title_fullStr | Interventions to prevent surface transmission of an infectious virus based on real human touch behavior: a case study of the norovirus |
title_full_unstemmed | Interventions to prevent surface transmission of an infectious virus based on real human touch behavior: a case study of the norovirus |
title_short | Interventions to prevent surface transmission of an infectious virus based on real human touch behavior: a case study of the norovirus |
title_sort | interventions to prevent surface transmission of an infectious virus based on real human touch behavior: a case study of the norovirus |
topic | Article |
url | 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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