Microbial contamination of storerooms at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum

Aerobiologia

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-133

  Niesler, Anna ^a   Górny, Rafal L ^b   Wlazlo, Agnieszka ^a   Ludzeń Izbińska, Beata ^a   Lawniczek Walczyk, Anna ^a   Golofit Szymczak, Malgorzata ^b   Meres, Zbigniew ^a   Kasznia Kocot, Joanna ^a   Harkawy, Aleksander ^a   Lis, Danuta O ^a   Anczyk, Edmund ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Poland)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOUR PROTECTION NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Air conditioning system; Bioaerosol; Biodeterioration; Indoor air quality; Museum; Settled dust

Indexed keywords

ACREMONIUM; ACREMONIUM CHARTICOLA; ACREMONIUM STRICTUM; ACTINOBACTERIA; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS MELLEUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS VERSICOLOR; AUREOBASIDIUM; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS COAGULANS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BREVIBACTERIUM; CANDIDA FAMATA; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM PROPINQUUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; DERMOBACTER HOMINIS; FUNGUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFORMATION CENTER; KOCURIA ROSEA; KOCURIA VARIANS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROCOCCUS; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MICROCOCCUS LYLAE; NONHUMAN; OIDIODENDRON; OLOCLADIUM; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM AURANTIOGISEUM; PENICILLIUM CHROMOGENES; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; SYNCEPHALASTRUM; YEAST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 77955715592     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-009-9149-z     Document Type: Article

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