Microbiological contamination with moulds in work environment in libraries and archive storage facilities

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-78

  Zielińska Jankiewicz, Katarzyna ^a   Kozajda, Anna ^a   Piotrowska, Małgorzata ^b   Szadkowska Stańczyk, Irena ^a  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Archives; Libraries; Microbiological air contamination; Moulds; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUSARIUM; GEOTRICHUM; HEALTH HAZARD; INFORMATION CENTER; LIBRARY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MOULD; MUCOR; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAECILLOMYCES VARIOTI; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHIZOPUS; TRICHODERMA; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ARCHIVES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGI; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LIBRARIES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; WORKPLACE;

ALTERNARIA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CLADOSPORIUM; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GEOTRICHUM; MUCOR; PENICILLIUM; RHIZOPUS;

EID: 46349093086     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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