Virus diffusion in isolation rooms

Isolation rooms for tuberculosis control.

A survey of respiratory isolation rooms in seven St. Louis hospitals reported in this month’s issue. begins to verify a general suspicion that many hospitals lack adequate facilities for treating patients with airborne infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). Respiratory isolation rooms should be under continual “negative pressure” relative to hallways and anterooms, so that air flows fro...

Using starch powder for the decontamination of I-131 in isolation rooms

Introduction: Various iodine isotopes are undergoing radioactive decay except Iodine-127 (I-127. Iodine I-131 is unsealed radioactive material used in nuclear medicine for both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in Royal Hospital since 2006. In radiotoxic classification, I-131 is in group 2 element. I-131 is highly reactive element due to its volatilization nature. Currently...

Isolation of Bovine Ephemeral Fever Virus in Iran

First isolation of equine rhinopneumonitis virus in Iran

Quantification of Influenza Virus RNA in Aerosols in Patient Rooms

BACKGROUND The potential for human influenza viruses to spread through fine particle aerosols remains controversial. The objective of our study was to determine whether influenza viruses could be detected in fine particles in hospital rooms. METHODS AND FINDINGS We sampled the air in 2-bed patient isolation rooms for four hours, placing cyclone samplers at heights of 1.5m and 1.0m. We collect...