The size distribution of droplets in the exhaled breath of healthy human subjects

Journal of Aerosol Medicine: Deposition, Clearance, and Effects in the Lung

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 105-116

  Papineni, Rao S ^a   Rosenthal, Frank S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioaerosol; Droplet; Electron microscopy; Exhaled breath; Infection control; Particle size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR ANALYSIS; AIRBORNE INFECTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; EXHALATION; EXPIRED AIR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOUTH BREATHING; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE BREATHING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0030911195     PISSN: 08942684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jam.1997.10.105     Document Type: Article

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