Distribution characterization of microbial aerosols emitted from a wastewater treatment plant using the Orbal oxidation ditch process

Process Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 910-915

  Li, Lin ^a   Gao, Min ^a   Liu, Junxin ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bioaerosols; Community structure; Particle size distribution; PCR DGGE; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE BACTERIA; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BIOAEROSOLS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CULTURABLE; CULTURABLE BACTERIA; CULTURE METHODS; EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; OXIDATION DITCH; PCR-DGGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREATMENT UNITS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AEROSOLS; BACTERIOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FUNGI; GRIT CHAMBERS; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE LAGOONS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 79952316684     PISSN: 13595113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2010.12.016     Document Type: Article

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