The effect of ozonization on furniture dust: Microbial content and immunotoxicity in vitro

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2305-2311

  Huttunen, Kati ^a,c   Kauhanen, Eeva ^a   Meklin, Teija ^a,b   Vepsäläinen, Asko ^a   Hirvonen, Maija Riitta ^a,c   Hyvärinen, Anne ^a   Nevalainen, Aino ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Technology Centre Teknia Ltd   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Furniture dust; Immunotoxicity; Microbes; Moisture damage

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CELL VIABILITY; CLEANING METHODS; CLEANING PROCEDURES; DAMAGE REPAIR; DUST SAMPLES; FUNGAL SPECIES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IN-BUILDINGS; IN-VITRO; INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS; MICROBES; MICROBIAL CONCENTRATIONS; MICROBIAL CONTENTS; MICROBIAL FLORA; MOISTURE DAMAGE; MOLD PROBLEM; OZONE TREATMENT;

CLEANING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MOISTURE; OZONE; OZONIZATION;

DUST;

AUTACOID; OZONE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DAMAGE; DUST; IMMUNOASSAY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOISTURE; OZONE; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CLEANING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST EXPOSURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FURNITURE; IMMUNOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROFLORA; MOISTURE; MOULD; NONHUMAN; OZONATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VACUUM;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DISINFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DUST; FUNGI; HOUSING; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; OZONE; STEAM;

EID: 77950046080     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.02.027     Document Type: Article

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