Inventors:
James McDevitt - Boston MA, US
Donald Milton - Lexington MA, US
Petros Koutrakis - Weston MA, US
Stephen T. Ferguson - North Billerica MA, US
Jack M. Wolfson - Jamaica Plain MA, US
Assignee:
The President and Fellows of Harvard University - Cambridge MA
University of Massachusetts Lowell - Lowell MA
International Classification:
G01N 1/22
Abstract:
One aspect of the invention relates to the devices and methods for the collection of bioaerosols (such as viruses, bacteria, and proteins) from the exhaled breath of humans and/or animals, for the purpose of determining, for example, particle size, generation rate, diseases and interventions for particle release.