Detection of viruses in used ventilation filters from two large public buildings

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Goyal, Sagar M ^a   Anantharaman, Senthilvelan ^a   Ramakrishnan, M A ^a   Sajja, Suchitra ^a   Kim, Seung Won ^b   Stanley, Nicholas J ^c   Farnsworth, James E ^c   Kuehn, Thomas H ^c   Raynor, Peter C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; bioterrorism; long term sampling; polymerase chain reaction; viral nucleic acid detection; virus isolation

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADENOVIRUS; AIR CONDITIONING; AIRBORNE VIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BOLIVIAN HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; BUILDING; CELL STRAIN; CORONAVIRUS; EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS; EBOLA VIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; FILTER; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INOCULATION; LASSA VIRUS; MARBURG VIRUS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 1; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 2; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 3; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS; VERO CELL; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS;

AEROSOLS; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; BIOTERRORISM; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA, VIRAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FILTRATION; FLOCCULATION; HEATING; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VENTILATION; VIRUSES;

EID: 80052027637     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2010.10.036     Document Type: Article

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