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Efficacy of face masks and respirators in preventing upper respiratory tract bacterial colonization and co-infection in hospital healthcare workers
OBJECTIVE: We compared the efficacy of medical masks (MM) and N95 respirators (N95) in preventing bacterial colonization/infection in healthcare workers (HCWs). METHODS: A cluster randomized clinical trial (RCT) of 1441 hospital HCWs randomized to medical masks or N95 respirators, and compared to 48...
Autores principales: | MacIntyre, C. Raina, Wang, Quanyi, Rahman, Bayzidur, Seale, Holly, Ridda, Iman, Gao, Zhanhai, Yang, Peng, Shi, Weixian, Pang, Xinghuo, Zhang, Yi, Moa, Aye, Dwyer, Dominic E. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172205/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.01.015 |
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