Performance of a novel non-fit-tested HEPA filtering face mask

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1260-1261

  Hui, Constance Yung Ting ^a   Leung, Czarina Chi Hung ^a   Gomersall, Charles David ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BREATHING; COMFORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EAR; FACE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; N95 RESPIRATOR; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT SURVEY; TOTOBOBO MASK; ADULT; ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICES; HONG KONG; MASK; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85029827406     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.105     Document Type: Short Survey

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