Cough aerosol in healthy participants: fundamental knowledge to optimize droplet-spread infectious respiratory disease management

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The Influenza A H1N1 virus can be transmitted via direct, indirect, and airborne route to non-infected subjects when an infected patient coughs, which expels a number of different sized droplets to the surrounding environment as an a...

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Main Authors: Zayas Gustavo, Chiang Ming C, Wong Eric, MacDonald Fred, Lange Carlos F, Senthilselvan Ambikaipakan, King Malcolm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-03-01
Series:BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2466/12/11