Seasonal variability of endotoxin in ambient fine particulate matter

Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 953-958

  Carty, Cara L ^a   Gehring, Ulrike ^a,b   Cyrys, Josef ^a,b   Bischof, Wolfgang ^c   Heinrich, Joachim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FUTUROLOGY; GEOMETRY; GERMANY; HOME CARE; HUMIDITY; INFLAMMATION; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GERMANY; HUMIDITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

LIMULUS;

EID: 0346158311     PISSN: 14640325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b308488d     Document Type: Article

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