Emission of bacteria and fungi in the air from wastewater treatment plants - A review

Frontiers in Bioscience - Scholar

Volumn 3 S, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 393-407

  Korzeniewska, Ewa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bioaerosol; Human health risk; Pathogens; Review; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ENDOTOXIN; RAIN;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AERATION; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AIRBORNE FUNGUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DESICCATION; ESCHERICHIA; FECAL COLIFORM; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS SPORE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMIDITY; MENINGITIS; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METEOROLOGY; MOULD; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PENICILLIUM; PHOTOREACTIVATION; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLA; SERRATIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SHIGELLA; SLUDGE; SLUDGE THICKENING; SOLAR RADIATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; AEROSOL; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGUS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION; BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGI; HUMANS; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 79955943935     PISSN: 19450516     EISSN: 19450524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/s159     Document Type: Review

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