Effects of Airflow and Changing Humidity on the Aerosolization of Respirable Fungal Fragments and Conidia of Botrytis cinerea

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3999-4007

  Madsen, Anne Mette ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; AEROSOLIZATION; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CHITINASES; FRAGMENT SIZES; FUNGAL FRAGMENT; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MACROCONIDIA; PHYSICAL FORCE; RESPIRABLE FRACTIONS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

FUNGI;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSOL; AIRFLOW; CHITIN; FRAGMENTATION; FUNGUS; INDOOR AIR; POLLUTION EFFECT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

AEROSOL; AIR; ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS; BUILDING MATERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGUS SPORE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BOTRYTIS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; PARTICLE SIZE; SPORES, FUNGAL;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA;

EID: 84864112461     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07879-11     Document Type: Article

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