β-(l,3)-Glucan exposure assessment by passive airborne dust sampling and new sensitive immunoassays

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1158-1167

  Noss, Ilka ^a   Wouters, Inge M ^a   Bezemer, Gillina ^a   Metwali, Nervana ^b   Sander, Ingrid ^c   Raulf Heimsoth, Monika ^c   Heederik, Dick J J ^a   Thorne, Peter S ^b   Doekes, Gert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DER RUHR UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM IPA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DUST SAMPLES; AIRBORNE DUSTS; DUST SAMPLES; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE ENVIRONMENT; GLUCANS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HOUSE DUST; INFLAMMATORY REACTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANTIBODIES; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYMES; FLOORS; POLYSACCHARIDES;

DUST;

ANTIBODY; ASTHMA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOASSAY; INHIBITION; SAMPLING;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BETA GLUCAN; BETA-1,3-D-GLUCAN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; PLANT ANTIGEN;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EXPOSURE; HOUSING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ANTIGENS, PLANT; ASTHMA; BETA-GLUCANS; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INHALATION EXPOSURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 76649114989     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01486-09     Document Type: Article

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