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- Title
A Model of Exposure to Rotavirus from Nondietary Ingestion Iterated by Simulated Intermittent Contacts.
- Authors
Julian, Timothy R.; Canales, Robert A.; Leckie, James O.; Boehm, Alexandria B.
- Abstract
Existing microbial risk assessment models rarely incorporate detailed descriptions of human interaction with fomites. We develop a stochastic-mechanistic model of exposure to rotavirus from nondietary ingestion iterated by simulated intermittent fomes-mouth, hand-mouth, and hand-fomes contacts typical of a child under six years of age. This exposure is subsequently translated to risk using a simple static dose-response relationship. Through laboratory experiments, we quantified the mean rate of inactivation for MS2 phage on glass (0.0052/hr) and mean transfer between fingertips and glass (36%). Simulations using these parameters demonstrated that a child's ingested dose from a rotavirus-contaminated ball ranges from 2 to 1,000 virus over a period of one hour, with a median value of 42 virus. These results were heavily influenced by selected values of model parameters, most notably the concentration of rotavirus on fomes, frequency of fomes-mouth contacts, frequency of hand-mouth contacts, and virus transferred from fomes to mouth. The model demonstrated that mouthing of fomes is the primary exposure route, with hand mouthing contributions accounting for less than one-fifth of the child's dose over the first 10 minutes of interaction.
- Subjects
MICROBIOLOGY; RISK assessment; STOCHASTIC models; ROTAVIRUSES; FOMES; VIRAL transmission
- Publication
Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 2009, Vol 29, Issue 5, p617
- ISSN
0272-4332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01193.x