Aerosol-Transmitted Infections—a New Consideration for Public Health and Infection Control Teams
Identifieur interne : 000506 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 000505; suivant : 000507Aerosol-Transmitted Infections—a New Consideration for Public Health and Infection Control Teams
Auteurs : Julian W. Tang ; Peter Wilson ; Nandini Shetty ; Catherine J. NoakesSource :
- Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases [ 1523-3820 ] ; 2015.
Abstract
Since the emergence of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the 2003 reemergence of avian A/H5N1, the emergence of the 2009 pandemic influenza A/H1N1, the 2012 emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the 2013 emergence of avian A/H7N9 and the 2014 Ebola virus outbreaks, the potential for the aerosol transmission of infectious agents is now routinely considered in the investigation of any outbreak. Although many organisms have traditionally been considered to be transmitted by only one route (e.g. direct/indirect contact and/or faecal-orally), it is now apparent that the aerosol transmission route is also possible and opportunistic, depending on any potentially aerosol-generating procedures, the severity of illness and the degree and duration of pathogen-shedding in the infected patient, as well as the environment in which these activities are conducted.This article reviews the evidence and characteristics of some of the accepted (tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox, whooping cough) and some of the more opportunistic (influenza,
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DOI: 10.1007/s40506-015-0057-1
PubMed: 32226323
PubMed Central: 7100085
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Noakes</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="Aff3"><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.9909.9</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000000419368403</institution-id><institution>Institute for Public Health and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering,</institution><institution>University of Leeds,</institution></institution-wrap>Leeds, UK</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases</title><idno type="ISSN">1523-3820</idno><idno type="eISSN">1534-6250</idno><imprint><date when="2015">2015</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><title>Opinion statement</title><p id="Par1">Since the emergence of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the 2003 reemergence of avian A/H5N1, the emergence of the 2009 pandemic influenza A/H1N1, the 2012 emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the 2013 emergence of avian A/H7N9 and the 2014 Ebola virus outbreaks, the potential for the aerosol transmission of infectious agents is now routinely considered in the investigation of any outbreak. Although many organisms have traditionally been considered to be transmitted by only one route (e.g. direct/indirect contact and/or faecal-orally), it is now apparent that the aerosol transmission route is also possible and opportunistic, depending on any potentially aerosol-generating procedures, the severity of illness and the degree and duration of pathogen-shedding in the infected patient, as well as the environment in which these activities are conducted.This article reviews the evidence and characteristics of some of the accepted (tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox, whooping cough) and some of the more opportunistic (influenza, <italic>Clostridium difficile</italic>, norovirus) aerosol-transmitted infectious agents and outlines methods of detecting and quantifying transmission.</p></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Meselson, M" uniqKey="Meselson M">M Meselson</name></author><author><name sortKey="Guillemin, J" 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Curr Treat Options Infect Dis</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Curr Treat Options Infect Dis</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1523-3820</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1534-6250</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Springer US</publisher-name><publisher-loc>New York</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">32226323</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">7100085</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">57</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1007/s40506-015-0057-1</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Viral Infections (J Tang, Section Editor)</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Aerosol-Transmitted Infections—a New Consideration for Public Health and Infection Control Teams</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><surname>Tang</surname><given-names>Julian W.</given-names></name><degrees>MA, PhD, MRCP, FRCPath, FHKCPath, FHKAM</degrees><address><phone>+44 (0) 116 258 6516</phone><email>jwtang49@hotmail.com</email><email>Julian.tang@uhl-tr.nhs.uk</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff1">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Wilson</surname><given-names>Peter</given-names></name><degrees>MD, FRCP, FRCPath</degrees><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2">2</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shetty</surname><given-names>Nandini</given-names></name><degrees>MD, FRCPath</degrees><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff2">2</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Noakes</surname><given-names>Catherine J.</given-names></name><degrees>PhD, CEng, FIMechE, FIHEEM</degrees><xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff3">3</xref></contrib><aff id="Aff1"><label>1</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.269014.8</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000000104359078</institution-id><institution>Clinical Microbiology, Leicester Royal Infirmary,</institution><institution>University Hospitals Leicester, Leicester NHS Trust,</institution></institution-wrap>Leicester, LE1 5WW UK</aff><aff id="Aff2"><label>2</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.52996.31</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000000089372257</institution-id><institution>Clinical Microbiology,</institution><institution>University College London Hospitals NHS Trust,</institution></institution-wrap>London, UK</aff><aff id="Aff3"><label>3</label><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="GRID">grid.9909.9</institution-id><institution-id institution-id-type="ISNI">0000000419368403</institution-id><institution>Institute for Public Health and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering,</institution><institution>University of Leeds,</institution></institution-wrap>Leeds, UK</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>23</day><month>7</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>7</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>176</fpage><lpage>201</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015</copyright-statement><license><license-p>This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract id="Abs1"><title>Opinion statement</title><p id="Par1">Since the emergence of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the 2003 reemergence of avian A/H5N1, the emergence of the 2009 pandemic influenza A/H1N1, the 2012 emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the 2013 emergence of avian A/H7N9 and the 2014 Ebola virus outbreaks, the potential for the aerosol transmission of infectious agents is now routinely considered in the investigation of any outbreak. Although many organisms have traditionally been considered to be transmitted by only one route (e.g. direct/indirect contact and/or faecal-orally), it is now apparent that the aerosol transmission route is also possible and opportunistic, depending on any potentially aerosol-generating procedures, the severity of illness and the degree and duration of pathogen-shedding in the infected patient, as well as the environment in which these activities are conducted.This article reviews the evidence and characteristics of some of the accepted (tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox, whooping cough) and some of the more opportunistic (influenza, <italic>Clostridium difficile</italic>, norovirus) aerosol-transmitted infectious agents and outlines methods of detecting and quantifying transmission.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Aerosol</kwd><kwd>Airborne</kwd><kwd>Droplet</kwd><kwd>Droplet nuclei</kwd><kwd>Infection</kwd><kwd>Transmission</kwd><kwd>Infection control</kwd><kwd>Influenza</kwd><kwd>Measles</kwd><kwd>Varicella</kwd><kwd>Chickenpox</kwd><kwd>Tuberculosis</kwd><kwd>Smallpox</kwd><kwd>SARS</kwd><kwd>Whooping cough</kwd><kwd><italic>Bordetella pertussis</italic></kwd><kwd><italic>Clostridium difficile</italic></kwd><kwd>Norovirus</kwd><kwd>Anthrax</kwd><kwd>Botulism</kwd><kwd>Tularaemia</kwd><kwd>Viral hemorrhagic fevers</kwd><kwd>Plague</kwd><kwd>Bioterrorism</kwd></kwd-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-copyright-statement</meta-name><meta-value>© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="Sec1" sec-type="introduction"><title>Introduction</title><p id="Par2">The transmission of infectious agents in human populations has been occurring in almost every conceivable situation since records began. Transmission of infectious agents can take place in the home, at work, on public transport or in crowded entertainment or shopping venues. Analysing and understanding the transmission of infection in a practical way may allow better interventions and prevention to be achieved.</p><p id="Par3">In the context of public venues and transportation, the potential for the transmission of infectious agents has been investigated and documented by a number of researchers—with extensive studies being performed particularly during the Cold War era when several nations had covert biological weapons development programmes involving weaponised versions of anthrax, smallpox and tularaemia [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR3">3</xref>]. In the USA, military mock attacks were even staged for research purposes with what were then considered to be harmless bacteria, such as <italic>Serratia marcescens</italic>, without public knowledge—but which resulted in death in some of the individuals exposed [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR2">2</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR4">4</xref>]. Despite the end of the Cold War many years ago and the 2001 terrorist attacks in the USA, such studies on the risk of infectious disease transmission on public transport have been revived in order to prepare for possible bioterrorist attacks; experiments have been conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to test the dispersion of contaminants in Boston subway stations as part of the ongoing national bioterrorism preparedness [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR5">5</xref>].</p><p id="Par4">Even in a civilian context, concerns about the potential for the transmission of airborne agents on transportation, particularly aircraft, have led to various investigations on specific pathogens, such as influenza [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR6">6</xref>] and, more recently, severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR7">7</xref>], measles [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR8">8</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR9">9</xref>], multiply-drug-resistant tuberculosis [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR10">10</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR12">12</xref>] and the 2009 pandemic influenza virus, A/H1N1p [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR13">13</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR14">14</xref>]. Indeed, air travel is particularly problematic, as this allows infectious agents to be transported across the globe overnight [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR15">15</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR18">18</xref>]. Such concerns have led to more detailed studies being performed on assessing the risk of airborne infection within aircraft cabins from human exhalation airflows [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR21">21</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="Sec2"><title>Specific examples in specific scenarios</title><p id="Par5">Exploring this particular scenario of airborne transmission on an aircraft a little further will serve to illustrate how the various specialist disciplines can interact and cooperate to use their specific knowledge to understand the potential mechanisms of spread and thereby how best to implement preventative measures.</p><p id="Par6">When a passenger infected with a respiratory pathogen coughs or sneezes on a passenger plane, who will be exposed to this potentially infectious aerosol? Just those passengers sitting immediately in front and perhaps those beside him/her? What about those sitting behind? What type of ventilation is present and how might this influence the path of such aerosols? And indeed, what does this aerosol consist of? Saliva and mucous? How many droplets of what sizes? What infectious agent could these droplets be carrying and how far could they spread? Will such infectious agents even survive in the airborne state for long enough to be transmitted to another passenger? Is the available, in-flight ventilation and filtration system sufficient to remove such infectious aerosols quickly enough and completely enough to prevent secondary transmission to other passengers? If not, will such a ventilation system at least be sufficient to dilute any such infectious aerosol to a harmless concentration? Would this dilution be sufficient to protect any immunocompromised passengers from acquiring a life-threatening infection?</p><p id="Par7">Answers to such questions require the input and expertise from a multidisciplinary team of public health specialists, epidemiologists, microbiologists and engineers, as accurate travel and contact histories, a detailed understanding of the pathogen concerned and the making or estimating of the appropriate physical environment parameters, with or without additional modelling, are all required in order to understand how any transmission event may have occurred and how to intervene to prevent its reoccurrence in this context in the future. The necessity for a similar combination of microbiological and engineering expertise can be illustrated in a different context—that of airborne transmission within buildings.</p><p id="Par8">The following describes two similar outbreak investigations, one on smallpox and one on severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Although these investigations are separated by over 30 years, they ask very similar questions and use very similar principles, though the methods were obviously much more sophisticated in the more modern study.</p><p id="Par9">Wehrle and colleagues [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>] investigated an outbreak of smallpox in Meschede in the then Federal Republic of Germany. The index patient was isolated on the ground floor of a three-storey building, which was part of the local, large general hospital there. Once he was diagnosed with smallpox, he was moved to another hospital nearby that had been recently constructed, specifically, to house smallpox patients. However, after his relocation, secondary cases of smallpox started appearing within the same building in which he was initially housed at the hospital in Meschede. Out of a total of 17 first-generation contact cases, all were thought to have contracted smallpox from this index case, via the airborne route. The authors and the outbreak investigation team reached this conclusion because the other alternative routes direct (i.e. face-to-face) contact or via contaminated fomites were extremely unlikely whilst the index patient was housed in the hospital’s isolation room, with the carefully controlled access and disposal of contaminated linens and utensils that this would entail. Furthermore, a simple but effective smoke tracer experiment confirmed that the pattern of secondary cases could be readily explained by the route taken by the smoke as it leaked from within the patient’s isolation room. Within the building, the route traced by the smoke led to the nearby adjacent rooms then along the corridor to the entrance hall and up the building’s central stairwell to the first and second floors. The other contributory route of airborne dissemination was also shown to be via an open window in the patient’s isolation room, whereupon the smoke was shown to enter rooms on the first and second floors with open windows, as a result of convection currents set up within these rooms by the radiators positioned below these windows. All of these areas had secondary cases of smallpox within one incubation period (range 7–17, but typically around 12 days). Notably, the smoke experiments were performed retrospectively, in April when meteorological conditions were deemed to be similar to those at the time of the outbreak that had occurred 3 months earlier in January of the same year.</p><p id="Par10">A similar approach using a retrospective engineering analysis with matching meteorological conditions was performed for a large outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong in March 2003 when a large housing estate, Amoy Gardens, reported several hundred cases of SARS within a 10-day period [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>]. The pattern of SARS cases within this housing estate was complex as there were seven tower blocks and the SARS cases were spread between four of them and at different levels within these affected towers. Although several competing hypotheses were suggested at the time to explain this complex pattern of SARS cases so early on in the 2003 outbreaks, remarkably, the most unifying hypothesis was that of the airborne spread of the virus excreted in faeces from a single index case with diarrhoea who had used a toilet in one of the apartments. In these apartments, floor drains in the bathrooms had a direct connection to the sewer pipes running down the outside of these buildings. However, when not filled with water, it was possible for sewage-contaminated aerosols to leak back into the bathroom—particularly if the extraction fans were on—to contaminate the apartment air and then to be extracted out into the gaps between the tower blocks [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR25">25</xref>]. Virus-contaminated aerosols could then be carried up on the up-welling air between the tower blocks and enter apartments in the adjacent towers through other open windows if kitchen or bathroom extraction fans were operating, creating a negative pressure sink within these apartments. An additional tier of evidence supporting an airborne transmission route is that not all of the tower blocks were affected in this housing estate—only four out of the seven towers reported SARS cases. An examination of the meteorological conditions for this period revealed that the wind direction during this period would have directed any such airborne contamination to these particular four towers, leaving the other three towers relatively safe. Computational fluid dynamics modelling taking these observations into account agreed with the pattern and distribution of the reported SARS cases very well, and the coating of biological material from the sewage probably protected the SARS virus from any desiccation or damaging exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun during the passage of the virus aerosols up between the towers. Indeed, a recent experimental study using surrogate microorganisms confirmed that bioaerosols can indeed be released from the sewage system into occupied rooms via depleted drain traps [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR26">26</xref>]. Despite various attempts to disprove this hypothesis over the years, since the end of the SARS outbreak, no other explanation has managed to explain the pattern of these SARS cases at the Amoy Gardens housing estate, so completely.</p><p id="Par11">These two investigations are inspiring examples of how the disciplines of engineering, public health, microbiology and infectious diseases can work together to solve problems of direct benefit and impact to healthcare-related problems and the principles may have wider implications to the public and society in general. For example, from this investigation of the Amoy Gardens SARS outbreak, meteorological factors may now be routinely taken into account when considering patterns of airborne spread [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR27">27</xref>], and aerosol and airborne transmission has become a significant factor in individual outbreak, as well as epidemic and even pandemic investigations.</p></sec><sec id="Sec3"><title>The impact of new technologies</title><p id="Par12">Before describing which infectious agents are transmissible by the airborne route, it is important to understand how the various means of their detection have changed over the years. This has an important impact upon the strength of the evidence that is presented in the various studies for or against airborne transmission, since the sensitivity of the various diagnostic tests will determine whether the presence of the pathogen is reported or not.</p><p id="Par13">Prior to the development of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the late 1980s, and all the molecular detection techniques that followed, the detection of viruses and bacteria was limited to culture, microscopy, serology and antigen detection. At that time, many experimental laboratory-based studies on the airborne detection and viability of various infectious agents followed very similar protocols: first, generate a culture broth of the pathogen, quantify the concentration of pathogen in this broth, aerosolise the broth using some sort of nebuliser/atomiser system into a rotating chamber (to maintain the droplets produced, effectively airborne) and test the recovery of viable pathogen using culture after varying periods of time [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR28">28</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR30">30</xref>]. With this approach, mainly pathogen culture techniques were used, but not all pathogens of interest (particularly those viruses causing diarrhoea, i.e. rotaviruses and the then small round structured viruses—SRSVs–with noroviruses being the most prominent of these) were easily cultured, and even if they were, using culture to quantify the amount of virus at the input and recovery stages was very difficult to perform, accurately.</p><p id="Par14">Other traditional methods for the detection of viral infection and demonstrating the presence of viruses were also impractical. Serology cannot be used for such pathogen detection studies as it only detects the host immune response (via antibody production) to infection with specific pathogens. Antigen detection was not available for many viruses, and where tests were available, the sensitivity was not particularly high. For most viruses, detection using electron microscopy (EM) was (and still is) inappropriate and EM cannot accurately quantify the number of viruses, particularly when its concentration threshold for the detection of any virus at all is in the order of 100,000 viruses per millilitre of sample medium (whether this be stool, urine, blood, etc.). The detection of airborne bacteria has been more successful, as culture could be reliably performed for most species of clinical importance and quantifying the number of input and recovered bacteria and counting the number of viable colony-forming units is relatively easy. However, some bacteria are thought to be damaged in the sampling process preventing their culture, and others where laboratory growth is very slow can result in drawn-out experiments that suffer with cross-contamination. A particularly difficult example is <italic>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</italic> which despite being arguably the best recognised airborne infection has never been successfully cultured from a room air sample.</p><p id="Par15">Hence, given the lower sensitivity of these older detection methods, it is likely that earlier failures to detect the presence and number of specific pathogens in experimental air samples may have led to the belief that such pathogens may not have been transmissible by the airborne route. In addition, the conclusions of many older studies stating that the airborne route was responsible for explosive outbreaks were based only on traditional epidemiological methods (e.g. case definitions and case finding within a compatible timeline geographic location), without any sampling and laboratory testing at all.</p><p id="Par16">So, it seems that prior to the availability of molecular methods, the evidence for or against airborne transmission of specific pathogens may not have been particularly accurate or reliable.However, one advantage of traditional culture methods over more modern molecular methods is now becoming important—the ability to detect viable microorganisms, which is discussed in greater detail in the succeeding paragraphs. In addition, it is always possible that some pathogens may be more transmissible by the airborne route in certain conditions, e.g. influenza in enclosed, crowded spaces like planes [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR6">6</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR31">31</xref>], or schools [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR32">32</xref>], so an absolute statement about their ability to transmit by the airborne route may not be particularly useful and may, at times, be misleading.</p><p id="Par17">For some of the more recently investigated organisms (e.g. severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus [SARS-CoV] and influenza virus), the question of airborne transmission has been raised. However, even with the application of molecular detection and other sophisticated epidemiological methods in different scenarios and environments, the demonstration of airborne transmission is still not necessarily conclusive. This topic has been covered by numerous review articles [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR38">38</xref>], and from these, it is becoming clear that several laboratory and engineering criteria need to be assessed to provide acceptable evidence for the presence of clinically significant airborne transmission.</p><p id="Par18">Thus, it is becoming clearer that the use of molecular methods have produced their own sets of criteria and raised additional questions about the nature and quality of the evidence, and therefore level of support that such results provide, in the ongoing debate about the capability of certain infectious agents to transmit at a clinically detectable and significant level via the airborne route. This in turn will have an impact on the guidelines advising on which form of personal protective equipment (PPE) should be used by healthcare workers (HCWs) when managing patients potentially or confirmed to be infected with such pathogens.</p><p id="Par19">The PCR as a means to detect and identify the presence of organism RNA or DNA in air samples has been used in many studies to demonstrate the presence or absence of these organisms. The rationale is that if the genome of the organism is present in the air, then it is a reasonable assumption that the organism is also present in the air and therefore has the potential to be inhaled by a susceptible host. This is certainly a necessary condition, as all known infectious agents contain either RNA or DNA, but it is not necessarily sufficient. A PCR-only approach can be readily criticised, as it does not necessarily demonstrate a live, viable organism that is capable of replication and therefore causing clinical disease in susceptible individuals. However, neither does the presence of RNA/DNA necessarily preclude the viability of the airborne organism—and the emphasis placed on this requirement to demonstrate viability differs with the circumstances—perhaps not unreasonably so.</p><p id="Par20">In clinical diagnostics, the use of PCR for diagnosing the presence of a causative agent has been well established and is in routine use in clinical diagnostics for various diseases, e.g. encephalitis (such as herpes simplex, varicella zoster, enterovirus, human herpesvirus 6, West Nile virus and JC virus, to name but a few) and blood-borne virus infections (such as with hepatitis B, hepatitis C, cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus, dengue virus and HIV), without the requirement to demonstrate independent viral viability in each case before a diagnosis is made and any necessary treatment initiated. Yet, increasingly, the emphasis has been on investigators to demonstrate the viability of the organisms whose RNA/DNA has been captured and identified in environmental (as opposed to clinical patient) samples, e.g. air samples, before any infection control-related interventions are to be implemented—and especially if the more expensive airborne infection control options (e.g. wearing N95 vs surgical masks).</p></sec><sec id="Sec4"><title>Characterising the environment</title><p id="Par21">A more subtle and indirect example of how culture or molecular detection methods can be used to infer the presence or absence of airborne transmission can be found when potential pathogen transmission routes are informed by environmental airflow patterns [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR37">37</xref>]. This additional investigation arm has been overlooked in many studies, often because many outbreak studies include public health/infectious disease physicians and microbiologists/virologists in the investigative teams but do not usually involve engineers who are able to define, characterise and assess the airflow dynamics of the environment in question. Including this expertise can have two valuable benefits: it can enable an investigation critically assess the feasibility of the airborne transmission route for disease causation, and if there is sufficient airflow data, it may enable quantification of the infectious dose.</p><p id="Par22">Such careful airflow measurements cannot normally be conducted during the outbreak period itself when patient care takes priority, and often such outbreak investigations can only be performed retrospectively, using fluid dynamics modelling and/or any available data that was recorded at that time, e.g. meteorological data on wind speeds and direction if involving an outdoor environment [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>], or with airflow pattern measurements in indoor environments, such as clinics and hospitals [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR37">37</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR39">39</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR43">43</xref>] summarise these and other studies where a convincing link was demonstrated between retrospectively measured airflow patterns and suspected airborne transmission had occurred in a healthcare environment. In contrast, air sampling of the environment in the presence of infected patients has more recently been performed with some useful results [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR44">44</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR46">46</xref>], as well as sampling airborne viruses contained in aerosolized droplets directly from coughing patients [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR47">47</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR48">48</xref>]. Being able to perform both of these types of studies, i.e. airflow and air sampling, at the time of an outbreak would be ideal. This is virtually impossible in an outbreak, because by definition an outbreak will only reveal itself as such only after several days to weeks when sufficient numbers of cases become evident, by which time it is often too late to plan and carry out measurements and any investigation must be retrospective.</p><p id="Par23">Thus, in many such investigations such engineering studies are never performed, either because the traditional epidemiological methods and evidence are deemed sufficient, or if the logistics of performing such studies retrospectively are too difficult and/or too uncertain and/or too costly—or, as might be the case for most studies, simply never considered. Traditional epidemiologists may argue that inferences based on traditional epidemiological methods do not require such engineering input. However, with the recent investigations into the possibility of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV and even ancient organisms like influenza, an engineering input is increasingly required to lend a certain degree of credibility for such investigations. There are also a very small number of planned transmission studies where the engineering input has proved hugely valuable.</p></sec><sec id="Sec5"><title>Air sampling techniques—proof of presence of airborne pathogens</title><p id="Par24">Microorganisms are present wherever air is sampled and are a potential source of transmission. Bacteria and fungi including spores can be carried as bioaerosols or individual particles. Small particles remain suspended for long periods whilst large particles fall to surfaces within a few minutes. Hospital infection control teams increasingly rely on engineering staff to provide evidence of adequate flow rates in the appropriate direction rather than bacterial counts. However, microbiological air sampling in the healthcare environment is used in commissioning new theatres and clean rooms and following refurbishment of ventilation systems [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR49">49</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR50">50</xref>]. In areas where pharmaceuticals or medical devices are produced, air sampling is regulated and standards are published (ISO 14698-1/2). For infection control staff, ideally, for portable, real-time, mobile, environmental surveillance within a hospital or clinic setting, samplers need to be compact and simple to use and laboratories able to process the agar media used.</p><p id="Par25">Bacteria-carrying droplets or particles can be detected by allowing them to passively settle on open agar plates or air can be drawn actively through a sampler at a fixed rate [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR49">49</xref>]. Settle plates are usually standard agar plates exposed for a fixed time and then incubated. They do not detect particles that remain airborne, and the volume of air sampled is not known, so there is no quantitative element. They may be affected by airflow rates and turbulence and can easily become contaminated. Another risk is that the agar can dry out. However, they can be useful to signal the need for quantitative sampling and can allow long-term sampling and are inexpensive. Hence, they are widely used in the food industry. Active samplers allow organisms to be collected onto a filter and eluted into solution (e.g. Institute of Medicine Personal Sampler and Airport MD8), impacted onto solid media (e.g. Andersen or Microbial Air Sampler-100), caught into a liquid medium (e.g. Biosampler, AGI-30 or Midget) or sampled using a centrifugal force (e.g. GK2-69, Reuter Centrifugal Sampler and Dorr-Oliver Cyclone). Some samplers use a rechargeable battery to power the pump to provide portability whilst others require a main power supply. Whilst operation of the sampler must be simple and efficient, counting and identification of airborne flora is a skilled task. Portable units for the clean room user (e.g. SAS Super 180) provide a high sampling rate to cover a cubic metre in 6 min onto an agar or contact plate.</p><p id="Par26">Machines that pull air across solid media (impactors) use single or several stages. There are up to six stages in the Andersen Sampler (Anderson Instruments Inc., Smyma, Georgia) that fractionates into decreasing particle sizes. The Casella Slit Sampler used an agar plate mounted on a turntable but has largely been superseded. The Surface Air Systems (SAS) Sampler (Cherwell Laboratories, Bicester, UK) is still used. Centrifugal acceleration is used to impact organisms onto solid media in the Reuter Centrifugal Sampler (RCS) (Biotest UK Ltd., Birmingham, UK) or into liquid (Cyclone Sampler, Aimer Products Ltd., London) (Fig. <xref rid="Fig1" ref-type="fig">1</xref>). The solid media may dry out with prolonged sampling. Large volumes of air sampled in contaminated environments may result in difficulty counting the number of colonies and a loss of accuracy. Impactors are commonly used to test air in healthcare facilities and are volumetric. In a single-stage instrument, air is drawn through a narrow slit or perforated plate onto agar media. The media is at right angles to the air flow, and rate of impaction depends on the size of the particle and the rate of air flow. The velocity of the flow is determined by the size of the hole in a sieve sampler or the width of the slit. A high flow is needed for the smaller particles, but the large external pumps of early models have been replaced with battery-powered integral pumps. When a set volume of air has passed through the sampler, the agar is removed and incubated. The number of colony-forming units seen gives a quantitative estimate of the airborne bacterial load. Plates can be purchased ready for use or prepared in house. These samplers can sample at high rates and large volumes when air quality is likely to be good. However, very large air volumes can dry out the plates and mechanical stress may destroy some bacteria. Incubation may require several days to produce results depending on the organism. PCR can only be used if a water-soluble polymer is used as the base.<fig id="Fig1"><label>Fig. 1</label><caption><p>Some examples of air samplers: <bold>a</bold> Thermo Scientific™ Andersen Cascade Impactor <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.thermoscientific.com/content/tfs/en/product/six-stage-viable-andersen-cascade-impactor-1.html">http://www.thermoscientific.com/content/tfs/en/product/six-stage-viable-andersen-cascade-impactor-1.html</ext-link>; <bold>b</bold> SKC BioSampler Liquid Impinger, <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.skcinc.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=400000000_401000000_401000050">http://www.skcinc.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=400000000_401000000_401000050</ext-link>; <bold>c</bold> SAS Coriolis Cylcone Sampler, <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.coriolis-airsampler.com/coriolis-micro.aspx">http://www.coriolis-airsampler.com/coriolis-micro.aspx</ext-link>. These images are for illustration purposes only, and their use should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind by the authors or the institutions that they represent.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="40506_2015_57_Fig1_HTML" id="MO1"></graphic></fig></p><p id="Par27">A multistage instrument directs air through a series of sieve plates (e.g. the Thermo Scientific™ Andersen Cascade Impactor). Deposition occurs as the air flow changes direction on reaching the agar, but smaller particles continue to the next plate in the stack. The smaller holes increase the speed of air flow and deposit smaller particles. Particles from 0.3 to 15 μm are collected, the smaller representing those that would reach lung alveoli. The agar plates can be incubated without further manipulation. A calculation can be made to allow for some single colonies arising from more than one particle, but heavy growth has to be estimated by repeating with a smaller volume of air. Centrifugal samplers use an agar strip lining the housing of the impeller but are less accurate especially at small particle sizes. The SAS (Surface Air Systems) single-stage impactor uses an agar plate over which air is drawn through a perforated cover plate. The volume of sample is determined using a timer. It is portable and easier to use than older slit sampler models. However, it is less efficient at trapping small particle size (50 % at 4 μm).</p><p id="Par28">Machines that pump air actively into liquid (impingers) achieve a very high efficiency (i.e. they capture a very high proportion of the airborne pathogens in the air volume sampled). Air is drawn through a narrow inlet to accelerate air towards the surface of the liquid where the change of direction deposits airborne particles. Flow rate, sample volume and sampling time enable a quantitative estimation to be made. Collection may be restricted by the relatively low rate of flow and rate of evaporation, e.g. single-stage micro-impingers (SKC Ltd, Dorset, UK), May liquid impinger (AW Dixon, Moolap, Victoria, Australia) and Ace all glass impinger-30 (Ace Glass NJ, USA). Some organisms may be damaged or could multiply in fluid if collection is delayed. The liquid medium allows PCR to be used [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR51">51</xref>]. Cyclone samplers use a liquid-air mix to collect particles on the inner wall before washing into a collection point (SAS-PCR, Coriolis Bertin technologies, Toulouse, France) (Fig. <xref rid="Fig1" ref-type="fig">1</xref>). Multistage impingers pass air through three liquid containers at different flow rates, impacting particles onto glass discs or into liquid. They are efficient because damage to the organisms is minimised by lower flow rates.</p><p id="Par29">Filtration samplers use gelatin, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), polycarbonate (PC) or mixed cellulose ester (Merck Millipore, Watford, UK; Nuclepore, Sterilin Ltd–Thermo Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA; Sartorius, Epsom, UK). Although some filters are highly efficient, the transfer from the filter results in some loss. Gelatin filters can be dissolved in suitable buffers which limits the loss of organisms. High- and low-volume pumps can be used. Organisms collected on the filters can be suspended in aqueous fluid before culture. Organisms on polycarbonate or cellulose filters can be counted under microscopy, e.g. acridine orange stain for viable counting under microscopy. Gelatin filters can be dissolved to release organisms and cultured.</p><p id="Par30">Sampling air for viruses is less well developed than for bacteria. Collection into liquid medium has been used, but long sampling times may be needed. Viruses are subject to damage or there may be bacterial overgrowth. Molecular detection is increasingly used.</p><p id="Par31">In immune compromised patients, exogenous infections are commonly acquired through airborne route [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR49">49</xref>]. <italic>Aspergillus</italic> air counts should be <5 colony-forming units (cfu)/m<sup>3</sup> in protective isolation and preferably much lower. To detect spores requires their removal onto a surface. The particle size influences the likelihood of capture, but as the aerodynamic diameter varies widely, the efficiency of an air sampler can be difficult to predict. Depending on humidity, the aerodynamic diameter of <italic>Aspergillus fumigatus</italic> is around 3.1 μm. The sampling volume has to be sufficient for a representative sample and not so large that spore counts become excessive. This has to be determined by use.</p><p id="Par32">Many countries have regulatory requirements for air sampling (e.g. ISO 14698-1/2). Samplers must be validated and calibrated regularly with respect to efficiency of particle collection and maintaining cell viability and flow rate. Usually, this is performed by an external company against membrane filtration or a Casella slit sampler for physical and biological efficiency and a certified flow meter for flow rate.</p></sec><sec id="Sec6"><title>Air sampling in practice</title><sec id="Sec7"><title>Wards</title><p id="Par33">In haematology/oncology wards, air sampling for fungal spores can be a useful measure of clinical risk for profoundly immune-suppressed hospital inpatients [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR52">52</xref>]. In one study of a HEPA-filtered ward, a third of monthly air samples were positive for <italic>Aspergillus</italic> compared with 95 % of outside air. Over a 10-year period, there were 48 spikes of <italic>Aspergillus</italic>-positive samples but a patient was infected only once when counts were high. In a comparison of six types of air sampler using six species of airborne bacteria and fungi, RCS High Flow and SAS Super 180 captured 80–90 % of fungal spores compared with 10–60 % of others [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR53">53</xref>]. The RCS Air Sampler, Andersen N6 single stage, SAS 90 and Air-o-Cell were all relatively consistent in capturing fungal spores [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR54">54</xref>].</p><p id="Par34">Impactors such as RCS or BioStage are efficient for sampling of culturable bacteria, whilst impingers and cellulose acetate filter are better for total bacterial sampling [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR55">55</xref>]. RCS High Flow and MAS-100 acquired 20–30 % of bacterial particles compared with 10 % of other samples from other types [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR53">53</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="Sec8"><title>Theatres</title><p id="Par35">Despite evidence that ultraclean air is associated with low rates of infection in orthopaedic surgery, there is little evidence of a link between airborne bacterial counts and surgical wound infection when antibiotic prophylaxis is used. In plenum ventilated theatres, the air is filtered to 5 μm whilst ultraclean theatres have high-efficiency particulate air filters down to 0.3 μm. Vertical laminar flow is associated with a reduced number of airborne bacteria at the operative site. However, patients given antibiotic prophylaxis have similar infection rates whether operated in conventional or laminar flow-ventilated theatres [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR56">56</xref>]. Most organisms causing infection of clean wounds enter from the skin flora shed from patients or staff. Bacteria may deposit through direct contact or from airborne dust.</p><p id="Par36">At 25 air changes per hour (UK standard), airborne counts are 50–150 cfu/m<sup>3</sup> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR50">50</xref>]. There are no agreed consensus limits on the number of organisms in air acceptable for use. During activity, UK recommendations are 180 cfu/m<sup>3</sup> in a plenum theatre in use or 35 cfu/m<sup>3</sup> in an empty theatre whilst in ultraclean theatre with conventional staff clothing the threshold is <10 cfu/m<sup>3</sup>. In Switzerland, the bacterial count within the laminar flow area is <1 and 5 cfu/m<sup>3</sup> outside and 25 cfu/m<sup>3</sup> in conventional theatres air filters having 95 % efficiency. Air sampling in 29 theatres over 3 years showed that lower bacterial air counts in empty theatres compared with those in use (median 12 cfu/m<sup>3</sup> [interquartile range (IQR) 4–32] vs. 80 cfu/m<sup>3</sup>). Fungi were isolated in 39.13 % of samples collected in empty theatres and 56.95 % of samples collected in working theatres [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR57">57</xref>]. However, sampling methods are not standardised and results are valid only at the time of sampling. Annual engineering maintenance is preferable to routine sampling. Bacterial sampling is better limited to investigation of outbreaks, validation or commissioning after maintenance of the ventilation system. Particle size counters have been suggested as being more useful in giving immediate results than microbiological sampling [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR56">56</xref>]. However, correlation between particulate counts and numbers of airborne bacteria is poor or lacking [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR58">58</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="Sec9"><title>Pharmacy production</title><p id="Par37">In areas where drugs or medical devices are produced or packaged, microbiological monitoring of air is essential. In a systematic review of 19 studies, doses prepared in clinical environments were contaminated in 2–5 % of cases compared with 0–1.9 % in pharmaceutical environments [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR59">59</xref>]. Batch preparations were less likely to be contaminated than individual doses. UK and USA have set standards for compounding using laminar flow isolators. Good Manufacturing Practice for the EU also contains guidance. Both active and passive air sampling is used to ensure air quality at installation and during operation.</p></sec></sec><sec id="Sec10"><title>Selective examples of accepted and potentially airborne pathogens</title><p id="Par38">Perhaps one indicator of whether an infectious organism is more or less likely to be transmitted via the airborne route is the value of its basic reproductive number, <italic>R</italic><sub>o</sub>, i.e. the number of secondary cases of an infection produced from a single-index case in the presence of an otherwise fully susceptible population. The higher the <italic>R</italic><sub>o</sub>, the more likely that the main route of transmission for that pathogen is via the airborne route (Table <xref rid="Tab1" ref-type="table">1</xref>). Hence, from the <italic>R</italic><sub>o</sub> values shown in Table <xref rid="Tab1" ref-type="table">1</xref>, there are several organisms which are efficiently transmitted by the longer-range, droplet nuclei, airborne route, including measles (<italic>R</italic><sub>o</sub> = 16–18) and chickenpox (<italic>R</italic><sub>o</sub> = 10–12).<table-wrap id="Tab1"><label>Table 1</label><caption><p>The basic reproductive number (<italic>R</italic><sub>o</sub>) for some common infectious agents where the airborne transmission route is significant (derived from Anderson and May [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR60">60</xref>])</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th>Organism</th><th>Basic reproductive number (<italic>R</italic><sub>o</sub>)</th><th>Critical proportion of population to be immunised for eradication (%)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Measles</td><td>16–18</td><td>90–95</td></tr><tr><td>Whooping cough</td><td>16–18</td><td>90–95</td></tr><tr><td>Chickenpox</td><td>10–12</td><td>85–90</td></tr><tr><td>Mumps</td><td>11–14</td><td>85–90</td></tr><tr><td>Rubella</td><td>6–7</td><td>82–87</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap></p><sec id="Sec11"><title>Tuberculosis (<italic>M. tuberculosis</italic>)</title><p id="Par39">Studies by Riley et al. in 1957 demonstrated that tuberculosis (TB) is unequivocally an airborne infection. They showed exhaust air from a TB ward caused infection in guinea pigs [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR61">61</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR62">62</xref>]. More recently, several studies recreated Well’s famous TB transmission studies from the 1950s [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR63">63</xref>], where air from a TB patient ward was extracted and passed over cages of guinea pigs, with and without the presence of UV air disinfection [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR64">64</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR66">66</xref>]. By using molecular techniques, the authors were able to relate particular guinea pig infections to patients and quantify the difference in cases between control and UV groups. In addition, the simultaneous measurement of ventilation flow rates enabled quantitative estimation of the generation of infectious doses (expressed as ‘quanta’) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR61">61</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR67">67</xref>], and therefore the infectiousness of different patients. Other well-documented outbreaks of TB such as that aboard the naval vessel ‘Richard R Byrd’ [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR68">68</xref>] and the spread of TB by wound irrigation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR40">40</xref>] have provided ample evidence of airborne transmission of TB. Fennelly et al. reported on the size of the airborne infectious particle generated by cough from TB patients as measured by an air sampler. They found these particles to be within the respirable size range, further supporting the feasibility of airborne transmission [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR69">69</xref>].</p><p id="Par40">For TB, <italic>R</italic><sub>o</sub> values are rarely given, even though it is widely accepted that TB is an obligate airborne-transmitted pathogen, with inhalation being the main route of infection. One estimate of the <italic>R</italic><sub>o</sub> for TB only puts it at 1–2 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR70">70</xref>], which is similar to the more recent estimates for seasonal [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR71">71</xref>] and pandemic influenza A/H1N1pdm09 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR72">72</xref>]. The main reason for this are the timescales involved and the major role played by reactivated (as opposed to primary, acute) infections within individuals from previous exposures that result in, possibly, subclinical infection, latency then reactivation to cause disease sometime later. As such, it is usually very hard to establish secondary cases associated with a particular TB cases.</p><p id="Par41">Multiple examples of TB outbreaks have been reported over the years, using a combination of more traditional epidemiological and laboratory methods, as well as more modern methods to evaluate transmission. The airborne route has clearly played a major role in the dissemination of the agent [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR40">40</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR73">73</xref>], and various risk assessment and modelling approaches [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR74">74</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR76">76</xref>] have been used to optimise interventions [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR77">77</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR78">78</xref>] and develop guidelines to limit the spread of this pathogen [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR79">79</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR81">81</xref>]. Thus, there is no question about the presence and significance of the airborne route in the transmission of TB.</p></sec><sec id="Sec12"><title>Varicella zoster virus (chickenpox)</title><p id="Par42">For varicella zoster virus (VZV), a series of studies by Asano and colleagues from Japan demonstrated the rapid dissemination of VZV DNA, using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), in environments in which there were index cases, by sampling fomites as well as the skin of household contacts [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR82">82</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR83">83</xref>]. Stronger evidence for a more airborne route of dissemination was obtained when VZV DNA was detected in air-conditioning and air-purifier filters, which would not have been easily contaminated by direct contact [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR84">84</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR86">86</xref>]. A hospital outbreak also provides evidence for airborne transmission, with retrospective airflow assessments using SF<sub>6</sub> tracer gas highlighting that patient rooms were inadvertently positively pressurised leading to contamination of corridor air [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR87">87</xref>]. Transient containment failures have also led to secondary infections with chickenpox [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR60">60</xref>]. Estimates of the basic reproductive number (<italic>R</italic><sub>0</sub>, i.e. the number of expected secondary cases arising from the presence of a single-index case introduced into a population of fully susceptible hosts) for VZV have been reported as 7–12 from data presented by Anderson and May [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR88">88</xref>] and more recently as 7.66 to 13.44 by Ogunjimi et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR89">89</xref>], which shows a remarkable consistency over 20 years, using different methods. For <italic>R</italic><sub>0</sub> values in this range, airborne transmission is likely to contribute significantly to the mode of transmission.</p></sec><sec id="Sec13"><title>Measles (rubeola)</title><p id="Par43">In contrast, for measles, which is another disease of antiquity, surprisingly, there are fewer studies directly investigating the evidence for airborne transmission, i.e. via environmental and/or air sampling. The work of Riley and colleagues [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR67">67</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR90">90</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR91">91</xref>] really brought home the concept of airborne transmission for measles as a public health problem in the 1970s and 1980s and reinvigorated the interest in this route of transmission for other pathogens, including TB [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR92">92</xref>]. However, due to almost universal, global and effective MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) immunisation, measles outbreaks in the modern era are limited to where vaccination is either refused or vaccine supply and administration is either inefficient and/or disrupted [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR93">93</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR96">96</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="Sec14"><title>Influenza</title><p id="Par44">The intense debate surrounding the potential for the aerosol transmission of influenza has been well documented elsewhere [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR34">34</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR36">36</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR38">38</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR97">97</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR99">99</xref>]. However, one historical observation is worth highlighting, where precautions to protect patients in hospitals from TB cross-infection led to an interesting outcome during the influenza season of 1957–1958. This event was documented in passing at the time and has now come to have more significance in recent years with the heightened interest in the various types and subtypes of influenza and their routes of transmission.</p><p id="Par45">A hospital for war veterans in Livermore, CA, had a special wing for TB patients. This wing had been equipped with an ultraviolet germicidal irradiation system (UVGI) that was designed to keep the air free of airborne TB. The rest of this wing, which was free of this intervention, experienced a significantly higher incidence of influenza during the annual influenza season from November 1957 to March 1958, based on numbers of patients exhibiting acute respiratory symptoms and serological markers for influenza infection [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR100">100</xref>].</p><p id="Par46">Although this study does appear to support the airborne route as the main transmission route for this particular strain of circulating influenza (the Asian pandemic A/H2N2 influenza strain at that time), there may be multiple confounders, which the authors acknowledge in their discussion. One of these is whether the mobility of the irradiated TB patients was similar to that of the patients in the non-irradiated wing, as contact transmission, both direct and indirect (i.e. via fomites), has also long been considered a significant route of transmission for influenza. Recently, modern researchers have been discussing whether this natural experiment can be repeated in a more rigorous manner. This would help to answer the question of whether influenza is truly transmitted by the airborne route in such in-patient hospitalised circumstances, and if so, how significant this proportion of secondary cases would be.</p></sec><sec id="Sec15"><title>Other respiratory viruses</title><p id="Par47">The other common respiratory viruses are not considered to be truly airborne by most researchers, clinicians or infection control teams—though opportunistic airborne transmission cannot always be ruled out and certain circumstances may occasionally allow airborne transmission [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR33">33</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR101">101</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR103">103</xref>].</p><p id="Par48">Rhinoviruses and coronaviruses which together are responsible for 60–70 % of all seasonal common colds or ‘influenza-like illness’ are mainly transmitted by large droplets over relatively short ranges or by direct contact, e.g. via infected mucous or saliva onto hands or fomites then to another individual’s hands and mucous membranes. This is also accepted to be the main mode of transmission for the other respiratory viruses: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses and human metapneumovirus (hMPV, which is from the same family as RSV and clinically similar).</p></sec><sec id="Sec16"><title><italic>Bordetella pertussis</italic> (whooping cough)</title><p id="Par49">Similar to TB, <italic>B. pertussis</italic> (also commonly known as whooping cough) is another respiratory, bacterial pathogen that is mainly transmitted by the airborne route. This is a highly contagious, acute respiratory illness and is a strict human pathogen with no known animal or environmental reservoir [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR104">104</xref>]. Maintenance of the organism within the human population is thought to require continuous transmission of the disease from infected to naive hosts [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR105">105</xref>]. Pertussis is widely described as being transmitted via aerosolized respiratory droplets; however, there have been few controlled studies that have documented airborne transmission of pertussis. Several retrospective hospital and school outbreak studies and prospective household contact studies have documented examples of transmission; however, these studies could not practically control for contact between individuals [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR106">106</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR108">108</xref>]. Therefore, the possibility of contact-mediated or indirect transmission confounding the evidence for airborne transmission could not be ruled out. The lack of earlier, effective animal models of pertussis transmission meant that carefully controlled laboratory studies to demonstrate airborne transmission could not be performed [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR109">109</xref>].</p><p id="Par50">Then in 2012, Warfel and co-workers reported on a successful baboon model to study pertussis transmission. They demonstrated naïve baboons co-housed with infected baboons, either in the same cage or in separate cages located 7 ft away, became infected, demonstrating airborne transmission of pertussis. As expected for an airborne exposure, the rate of transmission was dependent upon distance between the infected and naive individual. Although pertussis is typically described as being highly infectious, efficient transmission (at least in this animal model) appeared to require close contact or prolonged exposure [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR105">105</xref>].</p><p id="Par51">More recently, after a successful control for many years using infant immunisation strategies, this pathogen has seen a resurgence in the last decade, particularly in infants and adolescents. This may be due to a number of factors, including waning vaccine immunity, incomplete protection or undiagnosed primary vaccine failure, new introductions of source infections, emergence of new strains—with incomplete protection conferred by the existing vaccine. This may also be due to a possible increase in the identification of new cases due to better surveillance and more sensitive modern diagnostic techniques [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR110">110</xref>]. Estimates for <italic>R</italic><sub>o</sub> for whooping cough are as high as those for measles at around 16–18 (Table <xref rid="Tab1" ref-type="table">1</xref>), compatible with a predominantly airborne route of transmission.</p><p id="Par52">Interestingly, there are a few gastrointestinal pathogens that are potentially transmitted by the airborne route, as well as via the more traditionally accepted oral-faecal route.</p></sec><sec id="Sec17"><title><italic>Clostridium difficile</italic></title><p id="Par53"><italic>C. difficile</italic> infection (CDI) is a major cause of hospital-associated infection in healthcare facilities worldwide [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR111">111</xref>]. An understanding of the mechanisms of transmission is essential to establish effective interventions to minimise spread in the healthcare environment. Studies have shown that a patient with CDI can excrete between 1 × 10<sup>4</sup> and 1 × 10<sup>7</sup> of <italic>C. difficile</italic> spores per gram of faeces [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR112">112</xref>]. The possibility that C. <italic>difficile</italic> could be an airborne pathogen has been suggested in a number of studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR113">113</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR117">117</xref>]. Early animal experiments using the hamster model have demonstrated the possibility of airborne transmission and environmental contamination of <italic>C. difficile</italic> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR118">118</xref>]. Studies on hospitalised patients have been equivocal, with some workers providing evidence for the airborne route of transmission [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR115">115</xref>] and others failing to do so [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR117">117</xref>].</p><p id="Par54">In 2010, Best and co-workers [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR119">119</xref>] reported on a study to determine the extent of <italic>C. difficile</italic> contamination in ward environments, by recovery of <italic>C. difficile</italic> from air and environmental surfaces in the immediate vicinity of patients with symptomatic CDI. They performed air sampling adjacent to 63 patients with CDI for 180 h in total and for 101 h in control settings. Environmental samples were obtained from surfaces adjacent to the patient and from communal areas of the ward. <italic>C. difficile</italic> isolates were characterised by ribotyping and multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis to determine relatedness. Of the first 50 patients examined (each for 1 h), only 12 % had positive air samples, most frequently those with active symptoms of CDI (10 %, vs 2 % for those with no symptoms). They then sampled the air around 10 patients with CDI symptoms, each for 10 h over 2 days, as well as a total of 346 surface sites. <italic>C. difficile</italic> was isolated (by culture) from the air in the majority of these cases (7 of 10 patients tested) and from the surfaces around 9 of the patients; 60 % of patients had both air and surface environments that were positive for <italic>C. difficile</italic> (Fig. <xref rid="Fig2" ref-type="fig">2</xref>).<fig id="Fig2"><label>Fig. 2</label><caption><p>Line indicating the total number of <italic>Clostridium difficile</italic> colonies recovered at various times throughout the day (total of 10 patients tested for 2 days). The number of patients the colonies were isolated from is indicated in <italic>parentheses</italic> (reproduced, with permission, from [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR119">119</xref>]).</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="40506_2015_57_Fig2_HTML" id="MO2"></graphic></fig></p><p id="Par55">Molecular characterisation confirmed an epidemiological link between airborne dispersal, environmental contamination and CDI cases. They concluded the air within the patient’s immediate environment is contaminated with <italic>C. difficile</italic> spores either directly from symptomatic patients or from environmental surfaces and that people movement, including the opening and closing of doors, contributes to the circulation and dispersal of airborne <italic>C. difficile</italic>, and this could explain the widespread dissemination of epidemic strains. The infection control implications are that healthcare staff realise the importance of environmental cleaning and single-room isolation as soon as possible after the onset of diarrhoea to limit the dissemination of <italic>C. difficile</italic> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR119">119</xref>]. More recently, this same team demonstrated that <italic>C. difficile</italic> could be aerosolised by the act of toilet flushing and recommended that toilet lids be used in wards where such patients are managed [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR120">120</xref>]</p></sec><sec id="Sec18"><title>Norovirus</title><p id="Par56">Vomiting due to infection with norovirus is a recognised risk factor for the airborne dispersion of the virus [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR121">121</xref>]. An analysis of an outbreak in a large hotel demonstrated that victims’ attack rates were inversely related to their distance from a woman who vomited during her meal [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR122">122</xref>]. An outbreak in an elementary school demonstrated that attack rates were directly related to the number of times pupils were exposed to vomiting episodes, suggesting that spread occurred by the inhalation and swallowing of viral particles [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR123">123</xref>]. An earlier study further suggested that sufficient numbers of viable virus remain suspended in the air to infect people walking through this contaminated air, as it reported evidence of transmission when individuals walked through an emergency department in which a vomiting patient was being evaluated [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR124">124</xref>].</p></sec></sec><sec id="Sec19"><title>Bioterrorist agents</title><p id="Par57">Whilst this text is mainly focused on the potential for airborne transmission of naturally occurring infectious agents, a brief mention of agents of biological warfare is needed.</p><p id="Par58">These agents have been classified by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) into categories A, B and C (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist-category.asp">http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist-category.asp</ext-link>), where category A indicates agents that can be easily disseminated or which transmit from person-to-person, with potentially high mortality and high public impact (including the inducement of panic and social disorder), and which require some form of special public health preparedness. The agents in this category are botulism (<italic>Clostridium botulinum</italic> toxin), plague (<italic>Yersinia pestis</italic>), anthrax (<italic>Bacillus anthracis</italic>), tularaemia (<italic>Francisella tularensis</italic>), smallpox (<italic>Variola major</italic>), viral haemorrhagic fevers (<italic>Filoviridae</italic>: Ebola and Marburg and <italic>Arenaviridae</italic>: Lassa, Junin, Machupo, Guanarito, etc.).</p><p id="Par59">Of these, only smallpox has been shown to be definitively transmissible by the airborne route in its natural form and relatively effectively between people [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR22">22</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR125">125</xref>], but this organism still remains effectively eradicated. Untreated, end-stage pneumonic plague can transmit between individuals by large droplets over short distances, but in the modern era with rapid access to effective treatment, person-to-person transmission with naturally occurring plague is not considered to be a serious risk [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR126">126</xref>]. Although the airborne transmission of anthrax spores have been reported from biological weapons factories [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR1">1</xref>] and more recently in letters [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR127">127</xref>], natural human infections of inhalational anthrax rarely transmit between individuals [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR128">128</xref>].</p><p id="Par60">Inhalational tularaemia is not infrequently reported from endemic regions in North America and Europe, but person-to-person transmission is rare [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR129">129</xref>]. Natural botulinum toxin poisoning is usually acquired by ingestion. There have been attempts to weaponise it as an aerosol—as inhalational botulism—though it is not transmitted naturally by this route [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR130">130</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR131">131</xref>].</p><p id="Par61">For the viral haemorrhagic fevers, even though most naturally occurring secondary cases were thought to arise by direct contact with infected body fluids [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR132">132</xref>], there does appear to be the potential for aerosol transmission even in their natural form [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR133">133</xref>]. Concerns about weaponising such viruses as aerosols have been longstanding, and military research has been active in recent years in developing animal models to explore how such scenarios can be effectively countered [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR133">133</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR134">134</xref>].</p><p id="Par62">Such concerns about the potential for possible, opportunistic human-to-human airborne transmission have again been recently expressed for the massive Ebola virus outbreaks in West Africa [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR135">135</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR136">136</xref>], despite this virus being traditionally considered to be only transmitted via the contact route [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR137">137</xref>], with only speculative concerns about the potential for airborne transmission suggested previously [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR138">138</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR139">139</xref>]. Furthermore, Osterholm and colleagues have now advocated a new shift in the thinking around Ebola virus, to seriously consider the potential for aerosol transmission of this highly lethal virus, at least, in severe outbreak situations [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR140">140</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR141">141</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="Sec20"><title>Emerging and reemerging infections</title><p id="Par63">Some of the main drivers for the recent resurgence of interest in airborne transmission over the past decade were the global outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, particularly in Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada. During the SARS outbreaks, unusual clusters of cases were occurring in both hospital [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR41">41</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR42">42</xref>] and community settings [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR23">23</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR24">24</xref>], and even planes [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR7">7</xref>], which has led to multiple engineering computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling studies to determine how infected individuals may potentially seed the air with aerosol-transmitted pathogens and how they may then be potentially disseminated via ambient ventilation flows [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR19">19</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR20">20</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR37">37</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR142">142</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR144">144</xref>].</p><p id="Par64">The application of sensitive, quantitative PCR testing on both respiratory samples from patients [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR145">145</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR148">148</xref>] and environment air samples [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR44">44</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR46">46</xref>] demonstrated that viral RNA was present in the air and could be inhaled by other patients, healthcare workers and visitors working in those environments, perhaps explaining the observed widespread infection of healthcare workers seen during the 2003 SARS outbreaks.</p><p id="Par65">In parallel with these quantitative molecular diagnostic tools, mostly initially stimulated by various SARS outbreaks in healthcare and community populations, techniques to visualise exhaled human airflows became very topical, using both naturally infected human volunteers [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR149">149</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR156">156</xref>] as well as human simulation models [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR157">157</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR160">160</xref>], as infected individuals were considered to be the source of such outbreaks, and, importantly, that the number of secondary cases becoming infected were seemingly too great and rising too rapidly to be due to just contact transmission. To this end, more exhaled airflow visualisation studies by interested engineers were conducted using various surrogates for infected humans, including life-size, human-like, thermal breathing manikins, as well as specifically designed ‘cough’ machines, to allow further characterisation of the potential dissemination of airborne pathogens by human respiratory airflows [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR161">161</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR166">166</xref>]. Importantly, several human volunteer studies examined the impact of masks or other forms of mouth coverings, to curtail potentially infectious exhalation flows. They all demonstrated that mouth coverings decreased the exit velocities of these exhaled flows, allowing them to flow upwards with the natural human thermal plume, thereby reducing the potential transmission risk of airborne infectious agents to anyone in their immediate surroundings [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR151">151</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR154">154</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR166">166</xref>].</p><p id="Par66">These quantitative molecular detection, environmental air sampling and airflow visualisation investigative methods continued to be developed and refined, within the context of the reemergence avian A/H5N1 influenza virus in Hong Kong and China, to the extent that when the 2009 influenza A/H1N1 pandemic emerged, they were all ready to be applied to this new pathogen [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR72">72</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR167">167</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR170">170</xref>]. With all of this pre-pandemic preparedness (originally targeted at avian A/H5N1), stimulated by the 2003 SARS outbreaks, the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic was the most thoroughly investigated pandemic virus of all time. Quantitative PCR methods allowed comprehensive investigation and understanding of these new pathogens in various patient groups (children, adults, pregnant women, the immunocompromised), as well as its behaviour during various so-called ‘aerosol generating procedures’ (AGP) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR171">171</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR172">172</xref>]. Multiple studies have been performed to attempt to define the potential risk of aerosol transmission from infected patients using various air-sampling and quantitative PCR methods [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR48">48</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR173">173</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR175">175</xref>].</p><p id="Par67">These investigative techniques have been applied to various degrees in an attempt to characterise the aerosol transmission potential of various emerging viruses, including avian A/H5N1 influenza [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR176">176</xref>], seasonal and pandemic influenza A/H1N1pdm 2009 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR177">177</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR178">178</xref>], avian A/H7N9 influenza [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR179">179</xref>] and the Middle East respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (MERS-CoV) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR180">180</xref>], leading, in some cases, to a reassessment of their airborne transmission potential [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="CR181">181</xref>].</p></sec><sec id="Sec21"><title>Summary</title><p id="Par68">Over the past 12 years, since the SARS-CoV outbreaks in 2003 followed by the emergence and reemergence of various novel human and animal influenza and coronaviruses, there has been much research into the role of the aerosol transmission route. As a result of this, now, the concept of aerosol transmission for various infectious agents that cause respiratory symptoms is now firmly established in the minds of clinical infectious diseases, public health, microbiology and virology specialists, worldwide. Infection control guidelines, including the use of negative pressure rooms and how personal protective equipment is used, need to take into account these findings—particularly where a strong precautionary principle is being advocated when dealing with infectious agents of high lethality.</p></sec></body><back><fn-group><fn><p>This article is part of the Topical Collection on <italic>Viral Infections</italic></p></fn></fn-group><ack><sec id="FPar1"><title>Compliance with ethics guidelines</title><p><bold>Conflict of interest</bold></p><p>Nandini Shetty, Catherine Noakes and Julian Wei-Tze Tang have no relevant conflicts to report. 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