Influenza Virus Aerosols in Human Exhaled Breath: Particle Size, Culturability, and Effect of Surgical Masks

• Donald K. Milton ,

  * E-mail: dmilton@umd.edu

  Affiliations Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• M. Patricia Fabian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: M. Patricia Fabian, James J. McDevitt

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Benjamin J. Cowling,

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Li KaShing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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• Michael L. Grantham,

  Affiliation Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• James J. McDevitt

  Contributed equally to this work with: M. Patricia Fabian, James J. McDevitt

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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