The sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) is the disease that is transmitted via airborne. Taking precautions such as keeping distance, quarantining sick individuals, and restrict the overflow of crowds. It is known that the predominant pathway of transmission is airborne and the cause of rapid infectivity spread throughout the world. Puthussery and colleagues (2023) used a technique that was developed to combat the rapid spread by introducing the concept of pathogen Air Quality (pAQ) to monitor in real-time of the detection of possible SARS-CoV2 aerosols, meaning it contains the virus and remains in the air. The pAQ monitor is consisted of a batch of wet-wall glass cyclone also called, wet cyclone. The wet cyclone is connected to a vacuum pump that samples air and as the aerosols enter the wet cyclone that impact the inner wetted walls and are collected in the liquid media which the results are given after 30 seconds. The results show that the wet cyclone is ideal for the use of high-time resolution monitoring in real-world environments. Therefore, the wet cyclone showed better virus sampling results that copy-right available samples. The next step for this research as new viruses continues to evolve is for the widespread of adaptation of such technology for the assistance towards the public health officials to implement rapid disease control measures.
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