Influence of environmental characteristics and climatic factors on mites in the dust of air-conditioner filters

Indoor Air

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 474-481

  Wu, J ^a,b,c   Liu, Z G ^b   Ran, P X ^a   Wang, B ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Air conditioner filters; China; Climatic factors; Environmental characteristics; Mites

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; BANDPASS FILTERS; DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; FLOORS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AIR CONDITIONER; AIR-CONDITIONER FILTER; CHARACTERISTIC FACTORS; CHINA; CLIMATIC FACTORS; DOMINANT SPECIES; DUST SAMPLES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC; GUANGZHOU; MITE;

DUST;

ACARI; DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; TARSONEMUS;

EID: 70450160157     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: 16000668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2009.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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