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A Large-Volume Nebulizer Would Not Be an Infectious Source for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gwo-Hwa Wan ,
Ying-Huang Tsai ,
Yao-Kuang Wu  and
Kuo-Chien Tsao
Gwo-Hwa Wan
Affiliation:
Department of Respiratory Care, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Ying-Huang Tsai*
Affiliation:
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
Yao-Kuang Wu
Affiliation:
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
Kuo-Chien Tsao
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, Republic of China
*
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 5, Fu-Shing St., Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Abstract

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We attempted to detect the presence of airborne SARS-coronavirus (CoV) in a healthcare setting when a patient with SARS used a humidifier or a large-volume nebulizer (LVN). All of the air samples from the humidifier and LVN were found to have negative SARS-CoV-specific DNA products.

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 12 , December 2004 , pp. 1113 - 1115
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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