Airborne bacterial spore counts by terbium-enhanced luminescence detection: Pitfalls and real values

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2799-2804

  Li, Qingyang ^a   Dasgupta, Purnendu K ^a,b   Temkin, Henry K ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSITIVE INTERFERENCES; SIZE FRACTION;

AMINES; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE;

BACTERIA;

AROMATIC CARBOXYLIC ACID; DIPICOLINIC ACID; DODECYLAMINE; TERBIUM; TERBIUM DIPICOLINATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINES; BACTERIA; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE;

BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE; SPORE;

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; CYCLONE SEPARATOR; EXTRACTION; FLUID FLOW; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LUMINESCENCE; PICOLINIC ACIDS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TERBIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 42149134820     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es702472t     Document Type: Article

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