Ticket to ride: Spreading germs a mile high

Lancet

Volumn 365, Issue 9463, 2005, Pages 917-919

  Ozonoff, David ^a   Pepper, Lewis ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIRCRAFT; BREATHING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FILTER; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MEASLES; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIRCRAFT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TRAVEL; VENTILATION;

EID: 15844420137     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)71058-8     Document Type: Note

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