Findings from a household randomized controlled trial of hand washing and face masks to reduce influenza transmission in Bangkok, Thailand

Please cite this paper as: Simmerman et al. (2011) Findings from a household randomized controlled trial of hand washing and face masks to reduce influenza transmission in Bangkok, Thailand. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 5(4), 256–267

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses

• Publication date

  2011-02-17

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00205.xPMID 21651736PMCID 4634545
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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