Generic aspects of the airborne spread of human pathogens indoors and emerging air decontamination technologies

Highlights • Indoor air is an important vehicle for a variety of human pathogens. • Review of airborne transmission of infectious agents from experimental and field studies, predisposing to establish air-surface-air nexus and possible ways of transmission to susceptible hosts. • An overview of the methods for experimentally generating and recovering airborne human pathogens and environmental factors affecting their survival in air. • Current and emerging technologies for decontamination of indoor air for human pathogens. • Design, establishment, and validation of a room-size aerobiology chamber meeting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines (2012) that can be used for assessment of air-decontamination technologies.