Skin as a potential source of infectious foot and mouth disease aerosols

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1713, 2011, Pages 1761-1769

  Dillon, Michael B ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol emission; Airborne transmission; Epidemiology; Epidermal desquamation; Foot and mouth disease; Virus excretion

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXCRETION; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SKIN;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; LIVESTOCK; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN; VIROLOGY; VIRUS SHEDDING;

AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; LIVESTOCK; SKIN; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ANIMALIA; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 79955782222     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2430     Document Type: Review

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