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From: Assessment of the frequency of coughing and sneezing triggered by nasopharyngeal swabbing in the pandemic setting

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Schematic representation of the generation of Flügge's droplets by AGEs. Specimen collection by nasopharyngeal swabbing can generate reflexes of coughing and sneezing. In an infected person, such airborne particle producing events can lead to virus containing droplets (Flügge's droplets) falling in the proximity of the infected person while some droplets become aerosols by evaporation into droplet nuclei which can linger for many hours in the ambient air of enclosed spaces.

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