Airflow Dynamics of Human Jets: Sneezing and Breathing - Potential Sources of Infectious Aerosols

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Tang, Julian W ^a,b   Nicolle, Andre D ^c   Klettner, Christian A ^c   Pantelic, Jovan ^d   Wang, Liangde ^c   Suhaimi, Amin Bin ^c   Tan, Ashlynn Y L ^c   Ong, Garrett W X ^c   Su, Ruikun ^c   Sekhar, Chandra ^d   Cheong, David D W ^d   Tham, Kwok Wai ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUTH BREATHING; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE BREATHING; PLUME DISPERSION; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; SNEEZING;

ADULT; AEROSOLS; BIOMECHANICS; COUGH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION; SNEEZING;

EID: 84875645997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059970     Document Type: Article

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