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. 2007 Aug 1;45(3):353-9.
doi: 10.1086/519433. Epub 2007 Jun 19.

The spread of influenza and other respiratory viruses: complexities and conjectures

Caroline Breese Hall  1
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The spread of influenza and other respiratory viruses: complexities and conjectures

Caroline Breese Hall. Clin Infect Dis. .
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Protective clothes of a plague physician from the 17th Century. German engraving by Paul Furst Nuremberg, 1656.
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Major modes of spread of respiratory viruses and associated characteristics.
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Diagram of an infant ward showing rooms with 1 bed (horizontal lines) and 2–3 beds (dots).
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Proportion of 225 infants (age, ⩽1 year) hospitalized during 2 respiratory seasons (November–April) who acquired influenza nosocomially, according to the number of beds in the room and the distance from exposure to a laboratory-confirmed case of influenza.
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Infection-control procedures for prevention of spread of common respiratory viruses.
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