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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-03-01
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| Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3591312?pdf=render |