How does breathing frequency affect the performance of an N95 filtering facepiece respirator and a surgical mask against surrogates of viral particles?

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 178-185

  He, Xinjian ^a   Reponen, Tiina ^a   McKay, Roy ^a   Grinshpun, Sergey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

breathing frequency; manikin; N95; respirator; surgical mask

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE SAFETY; GAS MASK; MASK; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; VIRION;

EQUIPMENT SAFETY; MASKS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES; VIRION;

EID: 84895529188     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2013.848037     Document Type: Article

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