Microbial contamination of dental unit waterlines in Istanbul, Turkey

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 147, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 265-269

  Göksay, Duygu ^a   Çotuk, Ayşin ^a   Zeybek, Zuhal ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

ADA; Biofilm; Dental unit waterlines; Fungi; Legionella; Microbial contamination; Total aerobic mesophilic heterotrophic bacteria

Indexed keywords

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; CONTAMINATION; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FUNGI; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

ADA; DENTAL UNIT WATERLINES; LEGIONELLA; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; TOTAL AEROBIC MESOPHILIC HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIA;

WATER TANKS;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PATHOGEN; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL FACILITY; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LEGIONELLA; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MORAXELLA; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; PATHOGENICITY; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM DAMSELAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD;

BIOFILMS; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; LEGIONELLA; TURKEY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EURASIA; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA SP.; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; MORAXELLA SP.; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM; PHOTOBACTERIUM DAMSELAE; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

EID: 56249141491     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-0118-0     Document Type: Article

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