Exposure to microorganisms during manual sorting of recyclable paper of different quality

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 129-135

  Würtz, Helle ^a   Breum, Niels O ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bioaerosol exposure; Endotoxin; Enterobacteria; Fungi; Organic dust; Paper sorting plant; Recyclable materials; Recycling plant; Total counts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005799528     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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