Airborne dust, bacteria, actinomycetes and fungi at a flourmill

Aerobiologia

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-69

  Awad, Abdel Hameed A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Actinomycetes; Air quality; Bacteria; Flourmill; Fungi; Suspended dust

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AIRBORNE FUNGUS; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACILLUS; BRAN; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CLADOSPORIUM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; EGYPT; ENTEROBACTER; FLOUR; GRAVIMETRY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MICROCOCCACEAE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STORAGE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ALCALIGENES; ASPERGILLUS; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADOSPORIUM; ENTEROBACTER; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; PENICILLIUM; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 34248211172     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-007-9049-z     Document Type: Article

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