Exposure to bioaerosols in a municipal sewage treatment plant

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 241-248

  Prazmo, Zofia ^a   Krysińska Traczyk, Ewa ^a   Skórska, Czesława ^a   Sitkowska, Jolanta ^a   Cholewa, Grazyna ^a   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bioaerosols; Endotoxin; Fungi; Occupational exposure; Sewage treatment

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES; AEROSOL; AIR SAMPLING; ALLERGENICITY; ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM LIGNICOLA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GEOTRICHUM CANDIDUM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PENICILLIUM; POLAND; PSEUDOMONAS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; THERMOACTINOMYCES THALPOPHILUS; THERMOACTINOMYCES VULGARIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ENDOTOXINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; SEWAGE;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM LIGNICOLA; CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; CORYNEFORM BACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FUNGI; GALACTOMYCES GEOTRICHUM; GEOTRICHUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PENICILLIUM; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; THERMOACTINOMYCES; THERMOACTINOMYCES SACCHARI; THERMOACTINOMYCES VULGARIS;

EID: 0346500670     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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