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March 27th 2020

Modes of transmission of virus causing COVID-19: implications for IPC precaution recommendations: scientific brief, 27 March 2020

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Topics in this document

Clinical medicine Health care Diseases and disorders Coronavirus disease 2019 Infectious diseases Microbiology Epidemiology Transmission (medicine) Infection Infection control Public health Health Health sciences Medical specialties Medicine Medical humanities Airborne disease Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Coronavirus Medical statistics World Health Organization Aerosol Disease Hygiene Virus Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Related SDGs

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being
SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being

Target 3.3

End the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases

Target 3.d

Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risk

Related COFOG Divisions

7: Health 7.4: Public Health Services

Cites research funded by

NSF (Special project, May 2022) 1 Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 1 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 1 United States National Science Foundation 1 U.S. Department of Defense 1 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases 2 USAF 347 Contracting Squadron 1 National Science Foundation 1 NIH (Special project, May 2022) 1 Ministry of Science and Technology 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China 1 Health and Medical Research Fund 1 National High-tech Research and Development Program 1 National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities 1

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