In China, students in crowded dormitories with a low ventilation rate have more common colds: Evidence for airborne transmission

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Yuexia ^a,b   Wang, Zhigang ^c   Zhang, Yufeng ^a   Sundell, Jan ^d,e  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tianjin Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute   (China)

^d CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CHINA; CHINESE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMMON COLD; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CROWDING; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DORMITORY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROOM VENTILATION; SUMMER; WINTER; AIR; AIR CONDITIONING; HOUSING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; STUDENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; AIR; CHINA; COMMON COLD; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES; VENTILATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81155139215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027140     Document Type: Article

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