Efficacy of face masks and respirators in preventing upper respiratory tract bacterial colonization and co-infection in hospital healthcare workers

OBJECTIVE: We compared the efficacy of medical masks (MM) and N95 respirators (N95) in preventing bacterial colonization/infection in healthcare workers (HCWs). METHODS: A cluster randomized clinical trial (RCT) of 1441 hospital HCWs randomized to medical masks or N95 respirators, and compared to 48...

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Veröffentlicht in:Prev Med
Hauptverfasser: MacIntyre, C. Raina, Wang, Quanyi, Rahman, Bayzidur, Seale, Holly, Ridda, Iman, Gao, Zhanhai, Yang, Peng, Shi, Weixian, Pang, Xinghuo, Zhang, Yi, Moa, Aye, Dwyer, Dominic E.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2014
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172205/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472436
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.01.015
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