Abstract
Objective: The best way of preventing the dispersion of an infectious disease is decreasing the transmissibility of the pathogen. To achieve such a goal, it is important to have epidemiological surveillance to retrieve data about its routes of transmission and dispersion. This study investigated the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 detection using filtration through 0.22 μm pores.
Methods: A filtration system with vacuum pump was used for sampling, and molecular analysis was performed by RT-PCR for detecting the COVID-19 virus.
Results: It was found that SARS-CoV-2 could be detected in particulate matter trapped on 0.22 μm filters 3 h after air sampling, and the only contaminated areas were those near patient zones.
Conclusions: The results confirm the possibility of finding this virus in floating particulate matter in contaminated zones, with a simple and economic sampling method based on filtration technology through 0.22 μm pores and detection with molecular techniques (RT-PCR). The higher risk zones were those near patients with COVID-19.
Keywords: Pandemic; Particulate matter in air; SARS-Cov2.
【저자키워드】 SARS-CoV2, pandemic, Particulate matter in air, 【초록키워드】 SARS-CoV-2, Transmission, Infectious disease, RT-PCR, virus, SARS-CoV-2 detection, Transmissibility, pathogen, Surveillance, Patient, COVID-19 virus, Particulate matter, sampling, epidemiological, epidemiological surveillance, molecular, molecular analysis, best, higher risk, dispersion, zone, Particulate, filtration, was used, investigated, was performed, patients with COVID-19, 【제목키워드】 hospital, detection,