Fungal spore fragmentation as a function of airflow rates and fungal generation methods

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 3725-3735

  Kanaani, Hussein ^a   Hargreaves, Megan ^a   Ristovski, Zoran ^a   Morawska, Lidia ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air velocity; Fluorescent percentage; Fragments; Fungal spores

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW-RATE; AIR VELOCITIES; AIR VELOCITY; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; CONCENTRATION OF; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENT PERCENTAGE; FLUORESCENT SIGNALS; FRAGMENTS; FUNGAL FRAGMENT; FUNGAL SPECIES; FUNGAL SPORES; GENERATION METHOD; NIGER; PROPAGULES; REAL TIME; SCANNING MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZER; SMALL SAMPLES; SOURCE STRENGTH; THREE GENERATIONS; ULTRAVIOLET AERODYNAMIC PARTICLE SIZERS;

AIR; FLUORESCENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; VELOCITY;

SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

AIRFLOW; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; FUNGUS; PARTICLE SIZE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPORE; WIND VELOCITY;

AIRFLOW; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CLADOSPORIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS SPORE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PENICILLIUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VELOCITY;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; PENICILLIUM;

EID: 67649224104     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.04.043     Document Type: Article

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