Volatile Compounds Originating from Mixed Microbial cultures on building materials under various humidity conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2914-2919

  Korpi, Anne ^a   Pasanen, Anna Liisa ^a   Pasanen, Pertti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 OCTEN 3 OL; CARBON DIOXIDE; HEXANOL; ISOPENTYL ALCOHOL; PENTANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BUILDING MATERIAL; DILUTION; FUNGUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMIDITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; SPORE GERMINATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031927705     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.8.2914-2919.1998     Document Type: Article

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