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Viral cultures for assessing airborne transmission of SARs-CoV-2: a systematic review protocol (version 1)
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This is a protocol for a systematic review that aims to evaluate the role of viral cultures for assessing airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The review will address the following research questions:
Are airborne samples infectious?
If so, what proportion are infectious, and what is the distance and duration of infectiousness in the air?
What is the relationship between infectiousness and airborne PCR cycle threshold (Ct)?
Is there evidence of a chain of transmission that establishes an actual instance of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2?
What circumstances might facilitate infectious viruses being airborne over long distances?
We will search LitCovid, medRxiv, Google Scholar, and the WHO Covid-19 database to identify relevant studies. We will include studies reporting airborne transmission attempting viral culture or serial qRT-PCR with or without genomic sequencing. Predictive or modelling studies will be excluded. We will assess the quality of included studies using previously published criteria.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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- Preprint server copy:
- 10.1101/2022.01.28.22270021
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0187kwz08
- Preprint server:
- medRxiv
- Publication date:
- 2022-01-30
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1263011
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pubs:1263011
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2026-02-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Heneghan et al
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- ©2022 The Authors. The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
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