Exhaled aerosol transmission of pandemic and seasonal H1N1 influenza viruses in the ferret.

Person-to-person transmission of influenza viruses occurs by contact (direct and fomites) and non-contact (droplet and small particle aerosol) routes, but the quantitative dynamics and relative contributions of these routes are incompletely understood. The transmissibility of influenza strains estim...

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Main Authors: Frederick Koster, Kristine Gouveia, Yue Zhou, Kristin Lowery, Robert Russell, Heather MacInnes, Zemmie Pollock, R Colby Layton, Jennifer Cromwell, Denise Toleno, John Pyle, Michael Zubelewicz, Kevin Harrod, Rangarajan Sampath, Steven Hofstadler, Peng Gao, Yushi Liu, Yung-Sung Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22509254/pdf/?tool=EBI