Low-cost screening for microbial contaminants in aerosols generated in a dental office

General Dentistry

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 270-272

  Hubar, J Sean ^a   Pelon, William ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COMPUTER TERMINAL; COST; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; ECONOMICS; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPUTER TERMINALS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROSTATICS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL, DENTAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 25144478976     PISSN: 03636771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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