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Evaluation of the Benefit of the User Seal Check on N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Fit

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Pages 408-416 | Published online: 18 May 2012

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Simon C. Lam, Andrew K.F. Lui, Linda Y.K. Lee, Joseph K.L. Lee, K.F. Wong & Cathy N.Y. Lee. (2016) Evaluation of the user seal check on gross leakage detection of 3 different designs of N95 filtering facepiece respirators. American Journal of Infection Control 44:5, pages 579-586.
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