TY - JOUR AU - Fears, Alyssa AU - Klimstra, William AU - Duprex, Paul AU - Hartman, Amy AU - Weaver, Scott AU - Plante, Kenneth AU - Mirchandani, Divya AU - Plante, Jessica Ann AU - Aguilar, Patricia AU - Fernández, Diana AU - Nalca, Aysegul AU - Totura, Aysegul AU - Dyer, David AU - Kearney, Brian AU - Lackemeyer, Matthew AU - Bohannon, J. Kyle AU - Johnson, Reed AU - Garry, Robert AU - Reed, Doug AU - Roy, Chad T1 - Persistence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Aerosol Suspensions T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 9 SP - 2168 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We aerosolized severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and determined that its dynamic aerosol efficiency surpassed those of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and Middle East respiratory syndrome. Although we performed experiment only once across several laboratories, our findings suggest retained infectivity and virion integrity for up to 16 hours in respirable-sized aerosols. KW - aerosol KW - coronavirus diseases KW - 2019 novel coronavirus disease KW - COVID-19 KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - respiratory diseases KW - zoonoses KW - viruses KW - Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus KW - MERS-CoV KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus KW - SARS-CoV DO - 10.3201/eid2609.201806 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/9/20-1806_article ER - End of Reference