Detecting measles virus in hospital air during a local outbreak

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In 2024, Chicago experienced a measles virus outbreak. Air samples collected as part of routine respiratory virus surveillance from three hospitals that received measles patients were retrospectively analyzed. Measles virus was detected in air samples from one emergency department across five weeks when measles patients were present and another when no known cases were present. Two of three viral sequences derived from air samples were identical to measles outbreak patients. The source of one diverging sequence could not be identified and may represent a case not identified by traditional surveillance methods. Air sampling may supplement measles investigation, surveillance and response.

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@misc{barbian2026detecting,
  title = {{Detecting measles virus in hospital air during a local outbreak}},
  author = {H. J. Barbian and M. Funk and S. R. Black and M. K. Hayden and S. Zelencik and B. F. Borah and D. Zhang and A. H. Bartlett and L. K. Kociolek and A. Rosenthal and N. Farhat and V. E. McSorley and A. Kittner},
  howpublished = {medRxiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.64898/2026.09.25.26363929},
  url = {https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.25.26363929v1},
  note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Detecting measles virus in hospital air during a local outbreak
AU  - H. J. Barbian
AU  - M. Funk
AU  - S. R. Black
AU  - M. K. Hayden
AU  - S. Zelencik
AU  - B. F. Borah
AU  - D. Zhang
AU  - A. H. Bartlett
AU  - L. K. Kociolek
AU  - A. Rosenthal
AU  - N. Farhat
AU  - V. E. McSorley
AU  - A. Kittner
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/25
PB  - medRxiv
DO  - 10.64898/2026.09.25.26363929
UR  - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.25.26363929v1
AB  - In 2024, Chicago experienced a measles virus outbreak. Air samples collected as part of routine respiratory virus surveillance from three hospitals that received measles patients were retrospectively analyzed. Measles virus was detected in air samples from one emergency department across five weeks when measles patients were present and another when no known cases were present. Two of three viral sequences derived from air samples were identical to measles outbreak patients. The source of one diverging sequence could not be identified and may represent a case not identified by traditional surveillance methods. Air sampling may supplement measles investigation, surveillance and response.
ER  -

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