Comparison of polycarbonate and polytetrafluoroethylene filters for sampling of airborne bacteriophages

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 197-201

  Verreault, Daniel ^a   Rousseau, Geneviéve M ^b   Gendron, Louis ^a   Massé, Daniel ^c   Moineau, Sylvain ^b   Duchaine, Caroline ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c SHERBROOKE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLES; COLIPHAGES; PLAQUE ASSAY; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

POLITEF; POLYCARBONATE;

AEROSOL; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; COLIPHAGE; COLIPHAGE PHIX174; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; LACTOCOCCAL PHAGE P008; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS CULTURE;

EID: 77949589992     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: 15217388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786820903518899     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Burton, N. C., Grinshpun S. A., and Reponen, T. (2007). Physical Collection Efficiency of Filter Materials for Bacteria and Viruses. Ann. Occup. Hyg. 51:143-151.
2. Dahlgren, C. M., Decker, H. M., and Harstad, J. B. (1961). A Slit Sampler for Collecting T3 Bacteriophage and Venezuelan Equine Encephalomvelitis Virus. I. Studies with T3 Bacteriophage. Appl. Microbiol. 9:103-105.
3. Happ, J. W., Harstad, J. B., and Buchanan, L. M. (1966). Effect of Air Ions on Submicron T1 Bacteriophage Aerosols. Appl. Microbiol. 14:888-891.
4. Harstad, J. B. (1965). Sampling Submicron T1 Bacteriophage Aerosols. Appl. Microbiol. 13:899-908.
5. Jarvis, A. W. (1978). Serological Studies of a Host Range Mutant of a Lactic Streptococcal Bacteriophage. Appl. Environ. Microb. 36:785-789.
6. Jarvis, A.W., Fitzgerald, G. F., Mata, M.,Mercenier, A., Neve, H., Powell, I. B., Ronda, C., Saxelin, M., and Teuber, M. (1991). Species and Type Phages of Lactococcal Bacteriophages. Intervirology 32:2-9.
7. Mahony, J., Deveau, H., Mc Grath, S., Ventura, M., Canchaya, C., Moineau, S., Fitzgerald, G. F., and van Sinderen, D. (2006). Sequence and Comparative Genomic Analysis of Lactococcal Bacteriophages jj50, 712 and P008: Evolutionary Insights into the 936 Phage Species. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 261:253-261.
8. Sanger, F., Coulson, A. R., Friedmann, T., Air, G. M., Barrell, B. G., Brown, N. L., Fiddes, J. C., Hutchison, C. A., III, Slocombe, P. M., and Smith, M. (1978). The Nucleotide Sequence of Bacteriophage phiX174. J. Mol. Biol. 125:225-246.
9. Thomas, G. (1970). An Adhesive Surface Sampling Technique for Airborne Viruses. J. Hyg. (Lond.) 68:273-282.
10. Tseng, C. C., and Li, C. S. (2005). Collection Efficiencies of Aerosol Samplers for Virus-Containing Aerosols. J. Aerosol Sci. 36:593-607.
11. Verreault, D., Moineau, S., and Duchaine, C. (2008). Methods for Sampling of Airborne Viruses. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. R. 72:413-444.
12. Wichmann, H. E., Spix, C., Tuch, T., Wolke, G., Peters, A., Heinrich, J., Kreyling, W. G., and Heyder, J. (2000). Daily Mortality and Fine and Ultrafine Particles in Erfurt, Germany Part I: Role of Particle Number and Particle Mass. Res. Rep. Health Eff. Inst. 5-86; discussion 87-94.