Airborne culturable fungi in naturally ventilated primary school environments in a subtropical climate

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 412-418

  Salonen, Heidi ^a,b   Duchaine, Caroline ^c   Mazaheri, Mandana ^a   Clifford, Sam ^a   Morawska, Lidia ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concentration; Culturable fungi; Fungal flora; School environment; Subtropical area

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MOLDS;

BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELLING; CULTURABLE; FUNGAL FLORA; OUTDOOR CONCENTRATIONS; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS; SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT; SUBTROPICAL AREA; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITIES;

TROPICS;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BENCHMARKING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EDUCATION; FUNGUS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INDOOR AIR; SUBTROPICAL REGION; VENTILATION;

AIRBORNE FUNGUS; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BAYES THEOREM; CLADOSPORIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOULD; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ASPERGILLUS; CLADOSPORIUM; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM;

EID: 85027919244     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.07.052     Document Type: Article

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