Cooling towers—a potential environmental source of slow-growing mycobacterial species

American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 238-242

  Black, Walter C ^a   Berk, Sharon G ^a  

^a TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRrna; Cooling towers; Mycobacteria; Nontuberculous; NTM

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S; AGAR; CETYLPYRIDINIUM SALT; CYCLOHEXIMIDE;

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AEROSOL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING TOWER; MYCOBACTERIUM BOHEMICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM NONCHROMOGENICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SZULGAI; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES; WATER TREATMENT;

AIR CONDITIONING; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MYCOBACTERIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0043021877     PISSN: 15428117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15428110308984813     Document Type: Article

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