Defining the sizes of airborne particles that mediate influenza transmission in ferrets

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2018, Pages E2386-E2392

  Zhou, Jie ^a   Wei, Jianjian ^b   Choy, Ka Tim ^a   Sia, Sin Fun ^a   Rowlands, Dewi K ^c   Yu, Dan ^a   Wu, Chung Yi ^d   Lindsley, William G ^e   Cowling, Benjamin J ^a   McDevitt, James ^f   Peiris, Malik ^a   Li, Yuguo ^b   Yen, Hui Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d GENOMICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne particles; Airborne transmission; Droplet transmission; Ferrets; Influenza virus

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; INFLUENZA; MALE; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AIR;

AIR; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; FERRETS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 85042942477     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1716771115     Document Type: Article

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