Wilson, Peter;
(2007)
Is Natural Ventilation a Useful Tool to Prevent the Airborne Spread of TB?
PLoS Medicine
, 4
(2)
, Article e77. 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040077.
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Abstract
Airborne transmission of infections such as tuberculosis (TB) can be a major problem in health care establishments. Health care workers infected with TB can be unwitting disseminators of the infection, and expensive retrospective screening (of other health workers and patients) is required when the diagnosis is made. In the past, the benefits of natural ventilation in the treatment of TB were implicit in the design of the sanatoria wards (Figure 1). More recently, expensive negative pressure facilities have been installed to accommodate patients with TB, particularly following outbreaks of TB among patients with HIV/AIDS [1].
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Is Natural Ventilation a Useful Tool to Prevent the Airborne Spread of TB? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040077 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040077 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2007 Peter Wilson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
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| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1398672 |
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