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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2011
Abstract
Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) claim on average 90,000 lives each year in the U.S., nearly three times the number of annual highway deaths. Although fewer than 15% of HAIs are directly attributable to airborne transmission, more than a third may be caused by surface microbes aerosolized by the movement of air from building systems, people and equipment. As a result, a study was devised to use a synthetic respiratory aerosol to track the movement airborne contagion with respect to various environmental conditions in a healthcare environment.
Comments
Published in Grosskopf BMC Proceedings (2011), 5(Suppl 6):P90. doi:10.1186/1753-6561-5-S6-P90. Copyright © 2011 Grosskopf