Modeling human health risks of airborne endotoxin in homes during the winter and summer seasons

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1530-1537

  Liao, Vivian Hsiu Chuan ^a   Chio, Chia Pin ^a   Chou, Wei Chun ^a   Ju, Yun Ru ^a   Liao, Chung Min ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Airborne endotoxin; Homes; Lung; Probabilistic; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CELL MEMBRANES; HEALTH RISKS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

AIRBORNE ENDOTOXIN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIAL CELLS; HOMES; LUNG; PROBABILISTIC; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ENDOTOXIN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ASTHMA; BACTERIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; MODELING; PROBABILITY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEASONALITY; TOXIN;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WINTER; PROBABILITY; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77953003241     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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