The importance of fit testing in decontamination of N95 respirators: A cautionary note

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020 Aug;83(2):672-674. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2020.05.008. Epub 2020 May 8.

Authors

David Ozog¹, Angela Parks-Miller², Indermeet Kohli³, Alexis B Lyons², Shanthi Narla², Angeli E Torres², Martin Levesque², Henry W Lim², Iltefat H Hamzavi²

Affiliations

¹ Photomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Photomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.
³ Photomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan; Department of Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / prevention & control*
COVID-19 / transmission
Decontamination / methods*
Decontamination / standards
Equipment Reuse / standards*
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / prevention & control*
N95 Respirators / standards*
Pandemics / prevention & control
Practice Guidelines as Topic
SARS-CoV-2 / pathogenicity