Airborne fungi in non-problem buildings in a southern-hemisphere Mediterranean climate: Preliminary study of natural and mechanical ventilation

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 44-53

  Kemp, P C ^a   Neumeister Kemp, H G ^b   Murray, F ^a   Lysek, G ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne fungi; Colony forming units (CFU); Healthy buildings; Indoor air quality (IAQ); Sick building syndrome (SBS)

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTION; ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BUILDING; CANADA; CLIMATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PAECILOMYCES LILACINUS; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLING; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; PAECILOMYCES; PAECILOMYCES LILACINUS; PENICILLIUM;

EID: 0036088566     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063492     Document Type: Article

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