Investigation of bioaerosols released from swine farms using conventional and alternative waste treatment and management technologies

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 8849-8857

  Ko, Gwangpyo ^a,d   Simmons III, Otto D ^b   Likirdopulos, Christina A ^b,d   Worley Davis, Lynn ^c   Williams, Mike ^c   Sobsey, Mark D ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BACTERIOLOGY; COLIFORM BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FARM BUILDINGS; FARMS; HEALTH RISKS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; TECHNOLOGY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AIR CONTAMINATIONS; AIR SAMPLES; AIRBORNE MICRO ORGANISMS; AIRBORNE RELEASES; BIO AEROSOLS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLIPHAGE; CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS; CONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES; CULTURABLE BACTERIA; E. COLI; EXPOSURE RISKS; FARM WORKERS; FECAL COLIFORM; FECAL INDICATORS; MANAGEMENT PROCESSES; MICROBIAL CONTAMINANTS; PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS; PUBLIC HEALTHS; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; SWINE FARMS; TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES; UNITED STATES;

WASTE TREATMENT;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; BIOINDICATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FUNGUS; HEALTH IMPACT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PIG; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; WASTE TREATMENT;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLIPHAGE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS; LIVESTOCK; MICROBIAL AIR POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; SALMONELLA; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; FUNGI; HUMIDITY; MANURE; SALMONELLA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUNLIGHT; SWINE; TEMPERATURE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WIND;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; SALMONELLA; SUIDAE;

EID: 57449095677     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801091t     Document Type: Article

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