Direct assessment of microbial colonisation in damp houses by chemical marker analysis

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 251-254

  Szponar, Bogumila ^a,b   Szponar, Anita ^c   Larsson, Lennart ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

^c BOREAS Arch/Indoor Bioclimate Co   (Poland)

Author keywords

3 Hydroxy fatty acids; Bacteria; Building materials; Ergosterol; Fungi

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; ENDOTOXIN; ERGOSTEROL; HYDROXY FATTY ACID; WATER;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BUILDING; BUILDING MATERIAL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FUNGAL BIOMASS; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROLYSIS; LIPID ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 0041466165     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X03035164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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