Field evaluation of personal sampling methods for multiple bioaerosols

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Chi Hsun ^a   Chen, Bean T ^b   Han, Bor Cheng ^a   Liu, Andrew Chi Yeu ^a   Hung, Po Chen ^c   Chen, Chih Yong ^c   Chao, Hsing Jasmine ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c Ministry of Economic Affairs   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; POLYCARBONATE; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT;

AEROSOL; AIR SAMPLING; AIRFLOW; ALTERNARIA; ARTHRINIUM; ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; ASPERGILLUS; BASIDIOSPORE; BIOAEROSOL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILTER; BOTRYTIS; CERCOSPORA; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CULTURE MEDIUM; CURVULARIA; DRECHSLERA; EPICOCCUM; ERYSIPHE; FLOW RATE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM; HUMIDITY; HYPHOMYCETES; NIGROSPORA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OIDIUM; PENICILLIUM; PERICONIA; PERONOSPORA; PIG FARMING; PITHOMYCES; POLYTHRINCIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLER; SAMPLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CAPITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS COHNII; STEMPHYLIUM; TETRAPLOA; TORULA; ULOCLADIUM; ULTRACENTRIFUGE; AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; EVALUATION STUDY; FILTRATION; HUMAN; PIG;

FUNGI; SUIDAE;

AEROSOLS; AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMALS; FILTRATION; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SWINE;

EID: 84925727332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120308     Document Type: Article

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