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Airborne transmission as an integral environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance through the “One Health” lens

Ling Jina Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong;b Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong;c The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, ChinaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1267-7396View further author information
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Jiawen Xiea Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong KongORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6461-4464View further author information
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Tangtian Hea Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong KongORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7422-4950View further author information
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Dong Wud Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Biotransformation on Organic Solid Waste and Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, ChinaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3059-0593View further author information
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Xiangdong Lia Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong;c The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 4172-4193 | Published online: 06 Dec 2021

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