A large-volume nebulizer would not be an infectious source for severe acute respiratory syndrome.
We attempted to detect the presence of airborne SARS-coronavirus (CoV) in a healthcare setting when a patient with SARS used a humidifier or a large-volume nebulizer (LVN). All of the air samples from the humidifier and LVN were found to have negative SARS-CoV-specific DNA products.
Wan
Gwo-Hwa
GH
Department of Respiratory Care, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Tsai
Ying-Huang
YH
Wu
Yao-Kuang
YK
Tsao
Kuo-Chien
KC
D000336:Aerosols; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D004866:Equipment Contamination; D006801:Humans; D009330:Nebulizers and Vaporizers / Q000382:microbiology*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000635:transmission*
D000336:Aerosols; D004279:DNA, Viral