Transmission route of rhinovirus type 39 in a monodispersed airborne aerosol

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 857-859

  Bischoff, Werner E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; LACRIMAL DUCT; MALE; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RHINOVIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AEROSOL; COMMON COLD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RHINOVIRUS; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; COMMON COLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH; NASOLACRIMAL DUCT; NOSE; RHINOVIRUS;

AEROSOL;

EID: 77955915211     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655022     Document Type: Article

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