Exposure to airborne microorganisms and volatile organic compounds in different types of waste handling

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-44

  Kiviranta, Hannu ^a   Tuomainen, Anneli ^b   Reiman, Marjut ^b   Laitinen, Sirpa ^b   Nevalainen, Aino ^a   Liesivuori, Jyrki ^c  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Landfill site; Microorganisms; Resource recovery plant; Volatile organic compounds; Waste collection; Waste handling

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; LANDFILL; MICROORGANISM; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RECYCLING; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FINLAND; FUNGI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOSES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 0033016619     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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