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cord-299491-8rfm0jxh	Xiao, Shenglan	Role of fomites in SARS transmission during the largest hospital outbreak in Hong Kong	2017-07-20		.txt	text/plain	4765	218	53	Like many other respiratory viruses, the SARS-CoV is suspected to spread from an infected person to the susceptible via three basic transmission routes, i.e., the long-range airborne, close contact and fomite routes [14] [15] [16] , as shown in Fig 1. Several studies have proposed probable evidence for the airborne spread of the SARS-CoV based on the consistencies between bio-aerosol concentration distributions and reported attack rates [19] [20] [21] , but no mechanism-based investigations exist for the fomite route. To investigate the role the fomite route plays in SARS-CoV transmission, we conducted a detailed modelling study of the largest hospital outbreak in Hong Kong [20] , in which the distribution of reported attack rates of inpatients showed a statistically significant spatial pattern. A multi-agent model ( Fig 2) was developed to simulate the possible spread of the viruses from the index patient to the susceptible by air flow and surface touching, and to calculate the possible exposure doses and infection risks for each hypothesis.	./cache/cord-299491-8rfm0jxh.txt	./txt/cord-299491-8rfm0jxh.txt