Characterization of biological aerosol exposure risks from automobile air conditioning system

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 10660-10666

  Li, Jing ^a   Li, Mingzhen ^a   Shen, Fangxia ^a   Zou, Zhuanglei ^a   Yao, Maosheng ^a   Wu, Chang Yu ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE AIR CONDITIONING; BACTERIAL SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL AEROSOL; FLUORESCENT PEAK; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; LIMULUS AMEBOCYTE LYSATE; MICROBIAL AEROSOLS; ULTRAVIOLET AERODYNAMIC PARTICLE SIZERS;

AEROSOLS; AIR CONDITIONING; BACTERIA; DUST; FUNGI;

AUTOMOBILES;

ENDOTOXIN;

AEROSOL; AIR CONDITIONING; ALLERGY; AUTOMOBILE; DUST; FILTER; FUNGUS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; INFECTIVITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PATHOGEN; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TOXIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROSOL; AIR CONDITIONING; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS OCHRACEUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; ASPERGILLUS SYDOWII; ASPERGILLUS USTUS; ASPERGILLUS VERSICOLOR; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAR; CARNOBACTERIUM; CHINA; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CURVULARIA LUNATA; DUST; FILTER; FIRMICUTES; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CITRINUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSYCHROBACTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPOROSARCINA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS; TRICHODERMA VIRIDE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CHINA;

AEROSOLS; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; AUTOMOBILES; BACTERIA; ENDOTOXINS; FILTRATION; FUNGI;

EID: 84884275764     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es402848d     Document Type: Article

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