Airborne endotoxin concentrations at a large open-lot dairy in Southern Idaho

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1919-1923

  Dungan, Robert S ^a   Leytem, April B ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE ENDOTOXIN; AMBIENT WEATHER; COMPOSTING SITE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HEALTH EFFECTS; HOLDING POND; MANURE COMPOSTING; UPWIND LOCATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DAIRIES; HEALTH RISKS; LOCATION; MANURES; WASTEWATER;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

ENDOTOXIN;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COMPOSTING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DAIRYING; MANURE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER; WEATHER; WIND;

AIR POLLUTANTS; DAIRYING; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IDAHO; WIND;

ANIMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 69749102894     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2008.0504     Document Type: Article

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