Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and has been affecting the world since the end of 2019. The disease led to significant mortality and morbidity in Turkey, since the first case was reported on March 11th, 2020. Studies suggest a positive association between air pollution and SARS-CoV-2 infection. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of ambient particulate matters (PM), as potential carriers for SARS-CoV-2. Ambient PM samples in various size ranges were collected from 13 sites including urban and urban-background locations and hospital gardens in 10 cities across Turkey between 13th of May and 14th of June 2020 to investigate the possible presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on ambient PM. A total of 203 daily samples (TSP, n = 80; PM2.5, n = 33; PM2.5–10, n = 23; PM10μm, n = 19; and 6 size segregated PM, n = 48) were collected using various …
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Özgecan Kayalar, Akif Arı, Gizem Babuccu, Nur Konyalılar, Özlem Doğan, Füsun Can, Ülkü A Şahin, Eftade O Gaga, S Levent Kuzu, Pelin Ertürk Arı, Mustafa Odabaşı, Yücel Taşdemir, S Sıddık Cindoruk, Fatma Esen, Egemen Sakın, Burak Çalışkan, Lokman H Tecer, Merve Fıçıcı, Ahmet Altın, Burcu Onat, Coşkun Ayvaz, Burcu Uzun, Arslan Saral, Tuncay Döğeroğlu, Semra Malkoc, Özlem Özden Üzmez, Fatma Kunt, Senar Aydın, Melik Kara, Barış Yaman, Güray Doğan, Bihter Olgun, Ebru N Dokumacı, Gülen Güllü, Elif S Uzunpınar, Hasan Bayram