Dispersion of Legionella-containing aerosols from a biological treatment plant, Norway

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 3 E, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1300-1309

  Blatny, Janet Martha ^a   Fossum, Hannibal ^a   Ho, Jim ^b   Tutkun, Murat ^a   Skogan, Gunnar ^a   Andreassen, Oyvind ^a   Fykse, Else Marie ^a   Waagen, Viggo ^c   Reif, Bjorn Anders Pettersson ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Borregaard Ind Ltd   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Biological treatment plant; Dispersion; Legionella; Modeling; Real life

Indexed keywords

AERATION; AEROSOL; AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BACILLUS ATROPHAEUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HUMIDITY; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PARTICLE SIZE; PLUME; POND; VELOCITY; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; CLIMATE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

LEGIONELLA;

AEROSOLS; CLIMATE; LEGIONELLA; NORWAY; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 80053600917     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/e333     Document Type: Article

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