Levels of bacterial endotoxin in air of animal houses determined with the use of gas chromatography - Mass spectrometry and Limulus test

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 291-298

  Pomorska, Dorota ^a   Larsson, Lennart ^b   Skórska, Czesława ^c   Sitkowska, Jolanta ^c   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

3 hydroxy fatty acids; Air; Animal houses; Endotoxin; Gas chromatography; Limulus test; Mass spectrometry; Organic dust

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CARBON; ENDOTOXIN; GLASS FIBER; HYDROXY FATTY ACID;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR SAMPLING; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COW; FILTER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HAY; HORSE; LIMULUS LYSATE TEST; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; SHEEP; SWINE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; ENDOTOXINS; FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LIMULUS TEST; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; LIMULUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 39649106608     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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