Efficacy of environmental measures in reducing potentially infectious bioaerosols during sputum induction

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 483-489

  Menzies, Dick ^a,b,d   Adhikari, Neill ^b   Arietta, Marie ^a,b   Loo, Vivian ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Respiratory Epidemiology Unit   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; COUGHING; EXHAUST GAS; ROOM VENTILATION; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; SPUTUM INDUCTION; TUBERCULOSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VENTILATOR;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; COUGH; CROSS INFECTION; EXPECTORANTS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; QUEBEC; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VENTILATION;

EID: 0042490717     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502242     Document Type: Article

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