Monitoring of bioaerosol inhalation risks in different environments using a six-stage Andersen sampler and the PCR-DGGE method

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3993-4003

  Xu, Zhenqiang ^a   Yao, Maosheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacterial and fungal aerosols; Diversity; Inhalation risks; Six stage Andersen sampler

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS; AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; COLONY FORMING UNITS; CONCENTRATION LEVELS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); DIVERSITY; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; SIX-STAGE ANDERSEN SAMPLER;

ALGAE; ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNGI; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ELECTROKINESIS; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AGAR MEDIUM; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLER; AIR SAMPLING; ALTERNARIA; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOAEROSOL; CHAETOMIUM; CHINA; CLADOSPORIUM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DINING HALL; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITAL; HOTEL ROOM; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INHALATION; LABORATORY; MATERIAL STATE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATHOGEN LOAD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMULATION; STUDENT DORM; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT; EXPOSURE; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

ALTERNARIA; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHAETOMIUM; CLADOSPORIUM;

AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; BACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGI; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878360285     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2844-1     Document Type: Article

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