Decontamination of N95 masks for re-use employing 7 widely available sterilization methods

Anand Kumar, Samantha B. Kasloff, Anders Leung, Todd Cutts, James E. Strong, Kevin Hills, Frank X. Gu, Paul Chen, Gloria Vazquez-Grande, Barret Rush, Sylvain Lother, Kimberly Malo, Ryan Zarychanski, Jay Krishnan

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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243965
Published: 2020-12-16
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@article{allodium:10.1371/journal.pone.0243965,
  title = {Decontamination of N95 masks for re-use employing 7 widely available sterilization methods},
  author = {Anand Kumar and Samantha B. Kasloff and Anders Leung and Todd Cutts and James E. Strong and Kevin Hills and Frank X. Gu and Paul Chen and Gloria Vazquez-Grande and Barret Rush and Sylvain Lother and Kimberly Malo and Ryan Zarychanski and Jay Krishnan},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {PLOS ONE},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0243965},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243965}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Decontamination of N95 masks for re-use employing 7 widely available sterilization methods
AU  - Anand Kumar
AU  - Samantha B. Kasloff
AU  - Anders Leung
AU  - Todd Cutts
AU  - James E. Strong
AU  - Kevin Hills
AU  - Frank X. Gu
AU  - Paul Chen
AU  - Gloria Vazquez-Grande
AU  - Barret Rush
AU  - Sylvain Lother
AU  - Kimberly Malo
AU  - Ryan Zarychanski
AU  - Jay Krishnan
PY  - 2020
JO  - PLOS ONE
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Kumar, A., Kasloff, S. B., Leung, A., Cutts, T., Strong, J. E., Hills, K., Gu, F. X., Chen, P., Vazquez-Grande, G., Rush, B., Lother, S., Malo, K., Zarychanski, R., & Krishnan, J. (2020). Decontamination of N95 masks for re-use employing 7 widely available sterilization methods. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243965

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