Seasonal changes in airborne fungi and bacteria at a dairy cattle concentrated animal feeding operation in the southwest United States

Journal of Environmental Health

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 40-44

  Alvarado, Carla S ^a   Gandara, Angelina ^a   Flores, Carissa ^a   Perez, Hernando R ^a   Green, Christopher F ^a   Hurd, William W ^a   Gibbs, Shawn G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; CATTLE; FUNGUS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; DAIRYING; FUNGUS; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DAIRYING; FUNGI; HUMANS; SEASONS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; FUNGI;

EID: 66249128266     PISSN: 00220892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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