Human occupancy as a source of indoor airborne bacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hospodsky, Denina ^a   Qian, Jing ^a,d   Nazaroff, William W ^b   Yamamoto, Naomichi ^a,c   Bibby, Kyle ^a   Rismani Yazdi, Hamid ^a,e   Peccia, Jordan ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d Clarkson University   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FILTER; HAIR; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOSE; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR; ROOM VENTILATION; SKIN FLORA;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYLOGENY; SCHOOLS; VENTILATION;

EID: 84859982543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034867     Document Type: Article

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