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Respiratory protective equipment at work: good practices for filtering facepiece (FFP) mask

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Working group: Véronique Merle (veronique.merle@chu-rouen.fr), Philippe Vanhems (phillipe.vanhems@chu-lyon.fr), Arnaud Florentin (a.florentin@chru-nancy.fr), Pascale Chaize (p-chaize@chu-montpellier.fr), Michèle Aggoune (maggoune.priskinf@gmail.com), Anne Savey (anne.savey@chu-lyon.fr), Chantal Léger (chantal.leger@chu-poitiers.fr), Jean-Ralph Zahar (jrzahar@gmail.com).

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  1. French Society for Hospital Hygiene, Strasbourg, France

    Didier Lepelletier, Olivia Keita-Perse, Pierre Parneix, Raoul Baron, Ludwig Serge Aho Glélé & Bruno Grandbastien

  2. Bacteriology and Hospital Hygiene Department, Nantes University Hospital, 44000, Nantes, France

    Didier Lepelletier

  3. Epidemiology and Hospital Hygiene Department, Princess Grace Hospital, 98012, La Colle, Monaco

    Olivia Keita-Perse

  4. Regional center for infection control and prevention, Bordeaux University Hospital, 33076, Bordeaux, France

    Pierre Parneix

  5. Hospital Hygiene Department, Brest University Hospital, 29200, Brest, France

    Raoul Baron

  6. Epidemiology and Hospital Hygiene Department, Dijon University Hospital, 21079, Dijon, France

    Ludwig Serge Aho Glélé

  7. Hospital Hygiene and preventive medicine Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CH-1011, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Bruno Grandbastien

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Lepelletier, D., Keita-Perse, O., Parneix, P. et al. Respiratory protective equipment at work: good practices for filtering facepiece (FFP) mask. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 38, 2193–2195 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-019-03642-8

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