Collection of fungal spores on air filters and spore reentrainment from filters into air

Journal of Aerosol Science

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 969-978

  Jankowska, Elzbieta ^a   Reponen, Tiina ^b   Willeke, Klaus ^b   Grinshpun, Sergey A ^b   Choi, Kyung Ju ^c  

^a Ctrl Inst for Labour Protection   (Poland)

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

^c AAF International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; AIR FILTERS; AIR QUALITY; FUNGI; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

FUNGAL SPORES; SPORE REENTRAINMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

AIR FILTER; ENTRAINMENT; FUNGUS; VENTILATING SYSTEM;

AEROSOL; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FILTER; FUNGUS SPORE; PARTICLE SIZE; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

PENICILLIUM BREVICOMPACTUM; PENICILLIUM MELINII;

EID: 0034105323     PISSN: 00218502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-8502(00)00017-3     Document Type: Article

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