Abstract
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Conference abstract topics include:
- Respiratory virus transmission among humans
- Importance of aerosol transmission
- Experimental transmission studies e.g. volunteer challenge
- Household studies and other community‑based studies
- Transmission dynamics and epidemiologic parameters
- Importance of host, viral and environmental factors in transmission
- Role of asymptomatic infections in respiratory virus transmission
- Virus evolution within and between infected hosts
- Animal models for virus transmission
- Insights from the use of labelled viruses
- Virus evolution in animal infection, transmission and interspecies transmission
- Aerobiology in animal models
- Novel animal models
- Determinants of transmission
- Transmission across the animal-human interface
- Viral determinants of transmissibility
- Risk assessment of novel viruses
- Genetic bottleneck and determinants for interspecies transmission
- Basic science pertaining to transmission (e.g. aerosols, mucin, cough physiology, respiratory explants, respiratory anatomy and quasispecices)
- Control of respiratory virus transmission
- Effectiveness of personal protective equipment in different settings
- Nosocomial infection control measures
- Novel approaches to control transmission
- Immune aspects in transmission ‑ benefits of partial immunity?
- Application of molecular epidemiology to transmission control
- One-health approach for preventing and controlling epidemics and pandemics
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