Influenza Virus Aerosols in Human Exhaled Breath: Particle Size, Culturability, and Effect of Surgical Masks

The CDC recommends that healthcare settings provide influenza patients with facemasks as a means of reducing transmission to staff and other patients, and a recent report suggested that surgical masks can capture influenza virus in large droplet spray. However, there is minimal data on influenza vir...

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Main Authors: Milton, Donald K., Fabian, M. Patricia, Cowling, Benjamin J., Grantham, Michael L., McDevitt, James J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591312/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23505369
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003205
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