FBR_OC2_07 - ​​AIRCOV: SARS-CoV-2 presence and infectivity on indoor air samples

Portugal (PT)

Bilateral initiative facts

Promoter:
Universidade do Porto - Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS)(PT)
Bilateral initiative number:
PT-BI063
Initial cost:
€13,500
Initiative Types:
Data collection
Other
Workshop or seminarShort-term scientific missionPaper
Partners:
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)(NO)
Programme:
Bilateral Fund
Programme areas:
Public Health

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Description

The initiative aims to determine and characterize airborne SARS-CoV-2 in different outdoor and indoor environments in Oslo, including healthcare facilities, using a protocol that has been developed by the Portuguese partners, that are developing work in the topic for the last 18 months. In addition to this, the Norwegian partner will transfer knowledge on environmental virology and in particular, viral viability, by developing a PMAX treatment to reduce PCR signals from noninfectious virus, as done before by the partner to other environmental viruses, allowing to infer on SARS-CoV-2

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