Physical collection efficiency of filter materials for bacteria and viruses

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-151

  Burton, Nancy Clark ^a,b   Grinshpun, Sergey A ^b   Reponen, Tiina ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophages; Collection efficiency; Endospores; Gelatin; Polycarbonate; Polytetrafluoroethylene

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; POLYCARBONATES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; AEROSOLS; BACTERIOLOGY; EFFICIENCY; PARTICLE SIZE; PORE SIZE; VIRUSES;

COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; ENDOSPORES; FILTER LOADING; FILTER MATERIALS; GELATIN;

FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY;

GELATIN; POLITEF; POLYCARBONATE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AIRBORNE VIRUS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS ATROPHAEUS; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRION;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; BACTERIA; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; GELATIN; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYCARBOXYLATE CEMENT; POLYSTYRENES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; VIRUSES;

COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; ENDOSPORES; FILTRATION EFFICIENCY; GELATIN; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE (PTFE); SODIUM CHLORIDE (NACL);

EID: 33947107525     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mel073     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Agranovski IE, Safatov AS, Borodulin AI et al. (2004a) New personal sampler for viable airborne viruses: feasibility study. J Aerosol Science; 36: 609-17.
2. Agranovski IE, Safatov AS, Borodulin AI et al. (2004b) Inactivation of viruses in bubbling processes utilized for personal bioaerosol monitoring. Appl Environ Microbiol; 70: 6963-67.
3. Aizenberg V, Grinshpun SA, Willeke K et al. (2000) Performance characteristics of the button personal inhalable aerosol sampler. AIHAJ; 61: 398-404.
4. Alvarez ME, Aguilar M, Fountain A et al. (2000) Inactivation of MS-2 phage and poliovirus in groundwater. Can J Microbiol; 46: 159-65.
5. Bałazy A, Toivola M, Adhikari A et al. (2006) Do N-95 respirators provide 95% protection against airborne viruses, and how adequate are surgical masks? Am J Infect Control; 34: 51-7.
6. Belgrader P, Benett W, Hadley D et al. (1998) Rapid pathogen detection using a microchip PCR array instrument. Clin Chem; 44: 2191-94.
7. Booth TF, Kournikakis B, Bastien N et al. (2005) Detection of airborne severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus and environmental contamination in SARS outbreak units. J Infect Dis; 191: 1472-77.
8. Burke SA, Wright JD, Robinson MK et al. (2004) Detection of molecular diversity in Bacillus atrophaeus by amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis. Appl Environ Microbiol; 70: 2786-90.
9. Burton NC, Adhikari A, Grinshpun SA et al. (2005) The effect of filter material on bioaerosol collection of Bacillus subtilis spores used as a Bacillus anthracis stimulant. J Environ Monit; 7: 475-80.
10. CDC, NIOSH. (2004) NIOSH evaluation of air sampling methodologies for Bacillus anthracis in a United States Postal Service processing and distribution center - Trenton, New Jersey. HETA 2002-0109-2927.
11. CDC (2006). Bioterrorism Agents/Diseases. Available at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/agentlist-category.asp (accessed on May 12, 2006).
12. CDC, NIOSH (1996). NIOSH guide to the selection and use of particulate respirators certified under 42 CFR 84. DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 96-101, Washington, DC: National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety, DHHS.
13. Fiers W. (1967). Studies on the bacteriophage MS2. III. Sedimentation heterogeneity of viral DNA preparations. Virology; 33: 413-24.
14. Golmohammadi R, Valegard, K, Fridbord, K et al. (1993) The refined structure of bacteriophage MS2 at 28 Å resolution. J Mol Biol; 234: 620-39.
15. Hinds WC. (1999) Filtration. In Aerosol Technology Properties, Behaviorism and Measurement of Airborne Particles. 2nd edn. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc. pp. 182-205. ISBN 0 471 19410 7.
16. Hogan C, Lee M-H, Biswas P. (2004) Capture of viral particles in soft X-ray-enhanced corona systems: charge distribution and transport characteristics. Aerosol Sci Tech; 38: 475-86.
17. Hung L-L, Miller JD, Dillon HK, editors. AIHA. (2005) Air sampling instruments. In Field guide for the determination of biological contaminants in environmental samples. 2nd edn. Fairfax, VA: American Industrial Hygiene Association, pp. 225-253. ISBN 1 931504 62 8.
18. Jankowska E, Reponen T, Willeke K et al. (2000) Collection of fungal spores on air filters and spore reentrainment from filters into air. J. Aerosol Sci; 31: 969-78.
19. Jaschhof H. (1992) Sampling virus aerosols using the gelatin membrane filter - collection using a membrane filter at a high sampling rate. Bio Tec; 6 (English translation).
20. Koller W, Rotter M. (1974) Further investigations on the suitability of gelatine filters for the collection of airborne bacteria. Abl Bakt Hyg, I Abt Orig B; 159: 546-59.
21. Lee T, Grinshpun SA, Kim KY et al. (2006a) Relationship between indoor and outdoor airborne fungal spores, pollen, and (1→3)-β-D- glucan in homes without visible mold growth. Aerobiologia; 22: 227-35.
22. Lee T, Grinshpun SA, Martuzevicius D et al. (2006b) Relationship between indoor and outdoor bioaerosols collected with a button inhalable aerosol sampler in urban homes. Indoor Air; 16: 37-47.
23. Liu BYU, Pui DYH, Rubow KL. (1983) Characteristics of air sampling media. In Marple VA, Liu BYH editors. Aerosols in the mining and industrial work environments. Vol. 3: Instrumentation, Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor Science Publishers, pp. 989-1038. ISBN 0250405318.
24. Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin, RD. (2004) Principles and practices of infectious diseases. 6th edn. New York: Churchhill Livingstone. ISBN 0443066434.
25. Myatt TA, Johnston SL, Rudnick S et al. (2003) Airborne rhinovirus detection and effect of ultraviolet irradiation on detection by a semi-nested RT-PCR assay. BMC Pub Health; 3: 5.
26. Nicholson KG, Wood JM, Zambon M. (2003) Influenza. The Lancet; 362: 1733-44.
27. Oberdörster G, Oberdörster E, Oberdörster J. (2005) Nanotoxicology: an emerging discipline evolving from studies of ultrafine particles. Environ Health Perspect; 113: 823-39.
28. O'Connell KP, Bucher JR, Anderson PE et al. (2006) Real-time fluorogenic reverse transcription-PCR assays for detection of bacteriophages MS2. Appl Environ Microbiol; 72: 478-83.
29. Otten JA, Burge HA. (1999) Viruses. In Macher J, editor. Bioaerosols assessment and controls. Cincinnati, OH: American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. pp. 21-1-6. ISBN 978 1 882417 29 2.
30. Reponen T, Willeke K, Grinshpun SA et al. (2001) Biological particle sampling. In Baron PA and Willeke K, editors. Aerosol measurement, principles, techniques, and applications. New York: Wiley-Interscience. pp. 751-79. ISBN 0 471 35636 0.
31. Sattar SA, Ijaz MK. (2002) Airborne viruses. In Hurst CJ, Crawford RL, Knudsen GR, McInerney MJ, Stetzenbach LD, editors. The manual of environmental microbiology. 2nd edn. Washington, DC: ASM Press. pp. 871-83. ISBN 1 55581 199 X.
32. Shin G-A, Sobsey MD. (2003) Reduction of Norwalk virus, poliovirus 1, and bacteriophages MS2 by ozonedisinfection of water. Appl Environ Microbiol; 69: 3975-78.
33. Smith L, Carroll K, Mottice S. (1993) Comparison of membrane filters for recovery of Legionellae from water samples. Appl Environ Microbiol; 59: 344-6.
34. Thomas JH, Kim SK, Hesketh PJ et al. (2004) Bead-based electrochemical immunoassay for bacteriophage MS2. Anal Chem; 76: 2700-7.
35. Tseng C-C, Li, C-S. (2005a) Collection efficiencies of aerosol samplers for virus-containing aerosols. J Aerosol Science; 36: 593-607.
36. Tseng C-C, Li, C-S. (2005b) Inactivation of virus-containing aerosols by ultraviolet germicidal irradiation. Aerosol Sci. Technol; 39: 1136-42.
37. Valegard K, Liljas L, Fridborg K et al. (1990) The three-dimensional structure of the bacterial virus MS2. Nature; 345 36-41.
38. Wallace L, Williams A, Rea A et al. (2006) Continuous week-long measurements of personal exposures and indoor concentrations of fine particles for 37 health-impaired North Carolina residents for up to four seasons. Atmos Environ; 40: 399-414.
39. Wang Z, Reponen T, Grinshpun SA et al. (2001) Effect of sampling time and air humidity on the bioefficiency of filter samplers for bioaerosol collection. J Aerosol Sci; 32: 661-74 (2001).
40. Willeke K, Macher JM. (1999) Air Sampling. In Macher J, editor. Bioaerosols assessment and controls. Cincinnati, OH: American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. pp. 11-1-25. ISBN 978 1 882417 29 2.