Assessment of personal protective equipment used for facial mucocutaneous exposure protection in nonhuman primate areas

Lab Animal

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 49-53

  Cooper, Dale M ^a   Charles, Dan ^a   Durnell, Amanda J ^a   Anderson, Jason M ^a   Kern, Tom ^a   Self, Terry ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPOSURE; HELMET; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIMATE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMAL TECHNICIANS; ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIMATES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 22844436725     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0505-49     Document Type: Article

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