Airborne Microorganisms Emitted from Wastewater Treatment Plant Treating Domestic Wastewater and Meat Processing Industry Wastes

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 429-436

  Gotkowska Plachta, Anna ^a   Filipkowska, Zofia ^a   Korzeniewska, Ewa ^a   Janczukowicz, Wojciech ^a   Dixon, Beverly ^b   Golaś, Iwona ^a   Szwalgin, Damian ^a  

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

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioaerosol; Enteric bacteria; Microscopic fungi; Sewage; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOMESTIC WASTE; FUNGUS; HETEROTROPHY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICROORGANISM; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PANTOEA; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 84876443499     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201100466     Document Type: Article

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