Bacterial contamination of dental unit waterlines

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3603-3611

  Szymańska, Jolanta ^a   Sitkowska, Jolanta ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria; Bacterial contamination; Dental unit waterlines

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION; DENTAL UNIT WATERLINES; FACULTATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; GENUS BREVIBACTERIUM; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS; MICROBIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY;

CONTAMINATION; MICROORGANISMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AEROBIC BACTERIA;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; MICROORGANISM; RESERVOIR; SHORELINE; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTINOMYCES; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BREVIBACTERIUM; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DENTAL DEVICE; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; PSEUDOMONAS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA PICKETTII; RHODOCOCCUS; SPHINGOMONADACEAE; SPHINGOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ACTINOMYCES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BREVIBACTERIUM; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; RALSTONIA PICKETTII; SPHINGOMONADACEAE;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878348313     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2812-9     Document Type: Article

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