Concentrations of airborne culturable bacteria in 100 large US office buildings from the BASE study

Indoor Air, Supplement

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 71-81

  Tsai, F C ^a,b   Macher, J M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MS G365/EHLB ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne cultivable bacteria; Baseline exposure assessment; Bioaerosols; Building Assessment Survey and Evaluation (BASE) study; Office buildings

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BUILDING; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; SEASON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIUM;

EID: 20444407694     PISSN: 09085920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2005.00346.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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