Geographical and seasonal variation of fungal and bacterial components in mattress dust across europe

12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 2011

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 473-474

  Valkonen, Maria ^a   Täubel, Martin ^a   Hyvärinen, Anne ^a   Jarvis, Debbie ^b   Heinrich, Joachim ^c   Chen, Chih Mei ^c   Zock, Jan Paul ^d   Nevalainen, Aino ^a   Pekkanen, Juha ^a   Rintala, Helena ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geographical variation; Mattress dust; Microbes; QPCR; Seasonal Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880523601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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