Preventing Airborne Disease Transmission: Review of Methods for Ventilation Design in Health Care Facilities

Table 3

Summary of viability and infectivity measurement techniques for airborne pathogens.

Measurement technique	Advantages	Disadvantages
Animal tests	Common diseases between humans and animals and interaction with the host	Difficult to extrapolate test results to human infection
Culture methods	Reproducibility	Pathogen interaction with host
Molecular methods	Single-pathogen detection limit	Reproducibility and pathogen interaction with host
Plaque assay methods	Infectivity and interaction with live cells	Interaction with host