Development and Comparison of Complementary Methods to Study Potential Skin and Inhalational Exposure to Pathogens during Personal Protective Equipment Doffing

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue , 2019, Pages S231-S240

  Therkorn, Jennifer ^a   Drewry, David ^a   Andonian, Jennifer ^b   Benishek, Lauren ^c   Billman, Carrie ^b   Forsyth, Ellen R ^a   Garibaldi, Brian T ^c   Nowakowski, Elaine ^b   Rainwater Lovett, Kaitlin ^a   Sauer, Lauren ^c,d   Schiffhauer, Maggie ^b   Maragakis, Lisa L ^b,c,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

doffing self contamination; exposure assessment; inhalational exposure; methods development; personal protective equipment doffing

Indexed keywords

POLYSTYRENE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; HAND; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PIG; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SKIN POTENTIAL; WRIST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPOSURE; FLUORESCENCE; GAS MASK; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PROTECTIVE GLOVE; SIMULATION TRAINING;

FLUORESCENCE; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HAND; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYSTYRENES; RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES; SIMULATION TRAINING; SKIN;

EID: 85072149459     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz616     Document Type: Article

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