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Are surgical masks manufactured from sterilisation wrap safe?

BACKGROUND: Due to regional shortages some health services have proposed using surgical masks manufactured from sterilisation wrap. However, there has been little assessment of the safety of this practice. Therefore, we developed our own prototypes and evaluated whether they met regulatory standards...

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Autores principales: Grigg, Sam E., Zampiron, Andrea, Akbaridoust, Farzan, Chandran, Dileep, Holmes, Natasha E., Johnson, Paul D.R., Marusic, Ivan, Jones, Daryl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7674969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33221298
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2020.11.001