SARS transmission and commercial aircraft [1]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1502-1503

  Breugelmans, J Gabrielle ^a   Zucs, Phillip ^a   Porten, Klaudia ^a   Broll, Susanne ^a   Niedrig, Matthias ^a   Ammon, Andrea ^a   Krause, Gérard ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE CREW; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETTER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TRAVEL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 3543014366     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1008.040093     Document Type: Letter

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