A comprehensive breath plume model for disease transmission via expiratory aerosols

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Halloran, Siobhan K ^a   Wexler, Anthony S ^a,b   Ristenpart, William D ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE VIRUS; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EXPIRATORY AEROSOL; GUINEA PIG; HUMIDITY; INFLUENZA VIRUS; PARTICLE SIZE; TEMPERATURE; TURBULENT FLOW; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AEROSOL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXHALATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; KINETICS; LUNG VENTILATION; MICROBIOLOGY; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY;

AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; EXHALATION; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PULMONARY VENTILATION;

EID: 84872030151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037088     Document Type: Article

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