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Development of personal protective equipment for the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand and technical aspects of testing gown materials

Visarut Buranasudja1 ,  Anongnat Somwangthanaroj2 ,  Suched Likitlersuang3 ,  Tirawat Boonyatee3 ,  Chartchalerm Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya4 ,  Jittima Amie Luckanagul5*
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1 Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand
2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
3 Centre of Excellence in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
4 Department of Clinical Microbiology and Applied Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
5 Department of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
BMT 2021 , 2(1), 3–9; https://doi.org/10.3877/cma.j.issn.2096-112X.2021.01.002
Submitted: 10 March 2021 | Revised: 22 March 2021 | Accepted: 23 March 2021 | Published: 28 March 2021
Copyright © 2021 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 License.
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