Evaluation of bioaerosols in five educational hospitals wards air in Hamedan, during 2011-2012

Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Hoseinzadeh, Edris ^a   Samarghandie, Mohammad Reza ^b   Ghiasian, Sayed Amir ^c   Alikhani, Mohammad Yousef ^d   Roshanaie, Ghodratollah ^d  

^a LORESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bacteria; Bioaerosol; Fungi; Hospital; Indoor

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; AEROSOL; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; ALTERNARIA; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOAEROSOL; BIODIVERSITY; CLADOSPORIUM; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENSITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUSARIUM; GRAM STAINING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROCOCCUS; MUCORACEAE; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; PENICILLIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHIZOPUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TRICHODERMA; TRICHOTHECIUM; ULOCLADIUM;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADOSPORIUM; FUNGI; MICROCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84882710181     PISSN: 20083645     EISSN: 20084161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/jjm.10704     Document Type: Article

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