Risk of cross-infection in a hospital ward with downward ventilation

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2008-2014

  Nielsen, Peter V ^a   Li, Yuguo ^b   Buus, Morten ^c   Winther, Frederik V ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c COWI A/S ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cross infection; Downward ventilation; Full scale experiments; Hospital ward; Return opening location; Room air distribution

Indexed keywords

CROSS-INFECTION; FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; HOSPITAL WARD; HOSPITAL WARDS; ROOM AIR DISTRIBUTION;

EXPERIMENTS; PARALLEL FLOW; VENTILATION;

HOSPITALS;

AIRFLOW; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INDOOR AIR; RISK ASSESSMENT; VENTILATION;

EID: 77952582124     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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