Airborne influenza virus shedding by patients in health care units: Removal mechanisms affecting virus transmission

• Francis Hanna ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Hanna, Ibrahim Alameddine, Mutasem El-Fadel

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Civil Infrastructure & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

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• Ibrahim Alameddine ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Hanna, Ibrahim Alameddine, Mutasem El-Fadel

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

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• Hassan Zaraket ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HZ and HA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology & Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3807-6409

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• Habib Alkalamouni ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HZ and HA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology & Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

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• Mutasem El-Fadel

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Hanna, Ibrahim Alameddine, Mutasem El-Fadel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mutasem.elfadel@ku.ac.ae, mfadel@aub.edu.lb

  Affiliations Department of Civil Infrastructure & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2379-9006

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