Indoor air quality in university environments

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 170, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 509-517

  Di Giulio, Mara ^a   Grande, Rossella ^a   Di Campli, Emanuela ^a   Di Bartolomeo, Soraya ^a   Cellini, Luigina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Culturable microorganism; Index of microbial air; Indoor air quality; Settle plate method

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCES; AGAR PLATES; AIR CONTAMINATION; COLONY FORMING UNITS; CULTURABLE MICROORGANISMS; FUNGAL COLONIES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INDEX OF MICROBIAL AIR; INDOOR AIR; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; LIMIT VALUES; MICROBIAL CONCENTRATIONS; MICROBIAL POLLUTION; MICROFLORA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES; SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; SETTLE PLATE METHOD; UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT;

AIR QUALITY; BACTERIOLOGY; COLLEGE BUILDINGS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

BACTERIA;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BUILDING; COLONY; FLORA; INDOOR AIR; MICROORGANISM; POLLUTION MONITORING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACTINOMYCES; AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE MICROORGANISM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; ITALY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; UNIVERSITY;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LABORATORIES; UNIVERSITIES;

ACTINOMYCES; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 77957660147     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1252-7     Document Type: Article

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