Fungal spore transport through a building structure

Indoor Air

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 92-104

  Airaksinen, M ^a   Kurnitski, J ^a   Pasanen, P ^b   Seppanen O ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Crawl Space; Microbes; Particles; Transport to Indoors

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; PARTICLE SIZE; VENTILATION;

BUILDING ENVELOPES; BUILDING STRUCTURE; CRAWL SPACE; FUNGAL SPORES; INERT PARTICLE; MICROBE; PARTICLE; PENETRATION FACTOR; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; TRANSPORT TO INDOOR;

HEALTH RISKS;

ARTICLE; CLADOSPORIUM; COLD CLIMATE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUSTION; FUNGUS SPORE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HYPERBARISM; LABORATORY; MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PENICILLIUM; POLYMERIZATION; PRESSURE; RISK; VENTILATOR; AIR; AIR CONDITIONING; CLIMATE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CLADOSPORIUM; PENICILLIUM;

WATER;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CLADOSPORIUM; CLIMATE; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; PENICILLIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORES, FUNGAL; VENTILATION; WATER;

EID: 1642525757     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1600-0668.2003.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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