Characteristics of airborne actinomycete spores

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3807-3812

  Reponen, T A ^a   Gazenko, S V ^a   Grinshpun, S A ^a   Willeke, K ^a   Cole, E C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Health Services Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; MICROMONOSPORA; NONHUMAN; STREPTOMYCES; THERMOACTINOMYCES VULGARIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MICROMONOSPORA HALOPHYTICA; STREPTOMYCES ALBUS; THERMOACTINOMYCES VULGARIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031663309     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.10.3807-3812.1998     Document Type: Article

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