Analytical performance issues

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Amodio, Emanuele ^a   Cannova, Lucia ^a,b   Villafrate, Maria Rosaria ^a,b   Merendino, Anna Maria ^a,b   Aprea, Luigi ^a   Calamusa, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Medicina Trasfusionale ed Immunoematologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOSPITAL; ITALY; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL LOAD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOSPITALS; ITALY; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84891445876     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2013.852281     Document Type: Article

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