Normal and dusty days comparison of culturable indoor airborne bacteria in Ahvaz, Iran

Aerobiologia

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 127-141

  Soleimani, Zahra ^a   Parhizgari, Najmeh ^b   Dehdari Rad, Hassan ^c   Akhoond, Mohammad Reza ^d   Kermani, Majid ^e   Marzouni, Mohammad Bagherian ^f   Goudarzi, Hamed ^c   Goudarzi, Gholamreza ^c  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b YASUJ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

^e IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Backward trajectory; Biostage sampler; HYSPLIT; Indoor air; Khuzestan province

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939955798     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: 15733025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-014-9352-4     Document Type: Article

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