Gund, Madline
Isack, Jonas
Hannig, Matthias
Thieme-Ruffing, Sigrid
Gärtner, Barbara
Boros, Gabor
Rupf, Stefan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1551-9935
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes und Medizinische Fakultät der Universität des Saarlandes
Article History
Received: 31 March 2020
Accepted: 14 October 2020
First Online: 27 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Ethics approval for this study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Saarland Medical Association (Vote No. 181/19). According to this, the need for consent was waived, since a part of the protective equipment (outer surface of the face mask) was microbiologically tested without any reference to a person.
: For this type of study, formal consent is not required. Nevertheless, verbal informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.