The global pandemic of COVID-19 has been associated with infections and deaths among
health-care workers. This Viewpoint of infectious aerosols is intended to inform appropriate …

Global tuberculosis incidence has declined marginally over the past decade, and tuberculosis
remains out of control in several parts of the world including Africa and Asia. Although …

Infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics such as those due to SARS , influenza, measles,
tuberculosis, and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus have raised concern …

The concentration and size distribution of infectious aerosols produced by patients with
pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) has never been directly measured. We aimed to assess the …

Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) is a poorly understood entity that is often misdiagnosed as
asthma. We report eleven cases of VCD in which there was a temporal association between …

The efficacy of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) for inactivating airborne bacterial
spores and vegetative mycobacteria cells was evaluated under full-scale conditions. Airborne …

Rationale: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is transmitted by infectious aerosols, but assessing
infectiousness currently relies on sputum microscopy that does not accurately predict the …

Rationale: Airborne transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis results from incompletely
characterized host, bacterial, and environmental factors. Sputum smear microscopy is …

Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common bacterial pathogen in patients
with cystic fibrosis (CF). Current infection control guidelines aim to prevent transmission via …

Background The emergence of programmatically incurable tuberculosis threatens to
destabilise control efforts. The aim of this study was to collect prospective patient-level data to …