Bioaerosols Handbook

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This comprehensive handbook provides up-to-date knowledge and practical advice from established authorities in aerosol science. It covers the principles and practices of bioaerosol sampling, descriptions and comparisons of bioaerosol samplers, calibration methods, and assay techniques, with an emphasis on practicalities, such as which sampler to use and where it should be placed. The text also offers critiques concerning handling the samples to provide representative and meaningful assays for their viability, infectivity, and allergenicity. A wide range of microbes-viz., viruses, bacteria, fungi and pollens, and their fragments-are considered from such perspectives. Bioaerosols Handbook is divided into four parts, providing a wide-ranging reference work, as well as a practical guide on how best to sample and assay bioaerosols using current technology.

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The bioaerosols "bible".......2005-07-13

Considered by some to be THE overview reference book for bioaerosols, it covers their physical aspects, sampling, sample stability, instrument calibration, and multiple measurement approaches. It also describes problems specific to residential and industrial environments, including laboratories, hospitals, animal houses, and the particulars of pollen, fungi, molds, and bacteria.

I'm writing this review in 2005, and some of the material is a bit dated. The review of laser and optical measurement techniques gives some good background, but is no longer state of the art. Nevertheless, it is a very valuable reference for anyone studying bioaerosols for environmental or homeland security considerations.

The Bioaerosols Handbook.......2001-07-23

The handbook deals with the subject of bioaerosols on a broad but in depth basis. It deals with the practicalities of sampling, calibration and sample assay methods without being too theoretical. It's style is both technical but easy to read and understand, being written by experts from around the world. Each chapter has its own approach giving a refreshingly different perspective of each aspect of bioaerosol analysis. It's really a bioaerosol bible for anyone interested in biological aerosols and $... isn't bad for 600+ pages with a limited circulation. By the way it's brief specifically excluded viruses, so they don't get a lot of text devoted to them compared to bacteria, fungi etc.

It hasn't really dated that much either since 1995 (I am writing in 2006). Indeed even classic texts like 'The microbiology of the atmosphere' PH Gregory: Leonard Hill (1973) still pack in a lot of relevent data - I still love reading this book as well. By the way I wrote the chapter on Modern Microscopic Methods in the handbook - but I get no payment for sales or endorsement and I think the other twenty chapters are great. The pioneering UK image analysis manufacturers mentioned in this chapter are now long gone, so these days try the likes of MetaMorph, Leica QWin, Image pro Plus, Andora Technology and Openlabs image analysis software (they all work on the same basic principles anyway). Plus confocal microscopes, and other new types like TIRF, are now far more widespread in use.

Why not also try a library loan of :
1. Atmospheric Microbial Aerosols, B.Lighthart, A.J.Mohr, Chapman & Hall, 1994
2. The Aerobiological Pathway of Microorganisms, C.S.Cox, Wiley Press, 1987
3. Architectural Design and Indoor Microbial Pollution, R.B.Kundsin, Oxford University Press, 1988
Or check out the long reference lists in the Bioaerosol Handbook.

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Bioaerosols (Indoor Air Research)
Harriet A. Burge
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Written by an illustrious group of experts in microbiology and aerobiology, Bioaerosols brings together current information on the nature and health effects of bioaerosol-related problems. The book presents up-to-date coverage of methods for sampling and analysis, as well as various approaches to the investigation of health problems caused by exposure to biological contaminants in indoor air. Its comprehensive treatment of the various aspects of this subject makes it a valuable reference for industrial hygienists, public health officials and researchers, and physicians interested in environmentally caused disease.

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Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control

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Field Guide for the Determination of Biological Contaminants in Environmental Samples, Second Edition

ASIN: 1882417291

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Expanding far beyond its predecessor, this new text offers a comprehensive guide to the assessment and control of bioaerosols in the full range of contemporary workplaces. The popular Guidelines notebook, originally published by ACGIH® in 1989, offered 100 pages of information. The new volume is more than quintuple the size of the earlier version.

Although the indoor environment remains a focus of concern, much of the information in this publication has application beyond office environments. The prominence of saprophytic microorganisms remains; however, more attention has been given to other important biological agents (e.g., arthropod and animal allergens, infectious agents, and microbial volatile organic compounds). In addition, fuller descriptions were provided for microbial toxins and cell wall components that may cause health effects.

The new Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control was written by the ACGIH® Bioaerosols Committee with contributions from other experts in specific areas. The diversity in professional backgrounds and specialties of the authors ensures comprehensive, informed coverage of a broad spectrum of critical issues in the topic area.

Industrial hygienists, indoor environmental specialists, occupational health professionals, teachers, and managers will find this new text to be one of the most comprehensive guides to bioaerosols ever produced.

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Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control.......2000-03-31

I was looking for a good book on bioaerosols and Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control was recommended to me by several fellow members of the American Indoor Air Quality Council. I already owned the first publication (1989) by ACGIH Guidelines for the Assessment of Bioaerosols in the Indoor Environment. Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control is by far the best book on the assessment of bioaerosols on the market today. I highly recommend it to any professional looking for information on the subject. The book is technical but easy to read and easy to find what you are looking for. I gave it to our Infection Control Department and the Microbiology Department to preview. Both departments were equally impressed with the book. I ended up giving the book to Infection Control (because they kept borrowing it)and ordered another copy for our office. If you work with bioaerosols or in a health care facility you need this book. I am a safety officer/ industrial hygienist air monitoring for biological contaminates using the Air-O-Cells and Anderson samplers. This book has become my main source of information for biological monitoring.

Bioaerosols, Fungi and Mycotoxins : Health Effects, Assessment, Prevention and Control

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Bioaerosols, Fungi and Mycotoxins : Health Effects, Assessment, Prevention and Control

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Peer-reviewed, original research, clinical and epidemiological studies and technical reports on an emerging public health topic affecting people in indoor environments at work and at home - world wide. More than 90 international authors with various scientific and professional backgrounds, and practitioners have written about - health effects, assessment, treatment, and real-life issues related to microbial indoor air problems - possibly explaining "sick-building disease" and "building related disease" problems, new occupational diseases and health reactions to organic dust (fungi, bacteria, mycotoxins, endotoxins, glucans). Includes many informative illustrations and pictures.

Indoor Air Pollution: Radon, Bioaerosols, and VOCs

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Indoor Air Pollution: Radon, Bioaerosols, and VOCs
Jack G. Kay , George E. Keller , and Jay F. Miller
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Indoor Air Pollution: Radon, Bioaerosols, and VOCs covers the most current aspects of indoor pollution research, including vitally important topics such as radon, bioaerosols, and volatile organic compounds. The book presents information on microbial contamination abatement, chemical characterization of air samples, sick building syndrome, biological pollutants, liability of indoor air pollution, and measurement and control of radon. Industrial hygienists, toxicologists, safety officers, and engineers in industry and academia should consider this book a "must read" selection.

NIOSH Case Studies in Bioaerosols (Niosh Case Studies Series)

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NIOSH Case Studies in Bioaerosols (Niosh Case Studies Series)
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Conducted by NIOSH, these comprehensive case studies bring the latest research and technology to bear on workplace health problems which companies are likely to encounter at a variety of worksites. These hard-to-find case studies have been selected based on a number of variables, including type of workplace involved, the activities conducted there, and the causative agents determined to be responsible for the problems.

The 3-hydroxy fatty acids as biomarkers for quantification and characterization of endotoxins and Gram-negative bacteria in atmospheric aerosols in Hong Kong [An article from: Atmospheric Environment]

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The 3-hydroxy fatty acids as biomarkers for quantification and characterization of endotoxins and Gram-negative bacteria in atmospheric aerosols in Hong Kong [An article from: Atmospheric Environment]
A.K.Y. Lee , C.K. Chan , M. Fang , and A.P.S. Lau
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This digital document is a journal article from Atmospheric Environment, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Endotoxins from Gram-negative bacteria have received much attention because they could elicit strong pro-inflammatory responses in the human respiratory tract. In this study, 3-hydroxy fatty acids (3-OH FAs) with carbon chain lengths from 10 to 18 (C10-C18) were employed as biomarkers to quantify and characterize the endotoxins and Gram-negative bacterial community in atmospheric aerosols. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was utilized for quantification of this biomarker in fine (PM"2"."5) and coarse (PM"2"."5"-"1"0) particulates collected by high volume samplers simultaneously at a rural and an urban site in Hong Kong. The geometric mean concentrations of the endotoxins were 5.5 and 1.35ngm^-^3 in fine and coarse particulates at the rural site, respectively. At the urban site, the corresponding concentrations were 9.4 and 2.80ngm^-^3 in fine and coarse particulates, respectively. It is found that 70-80% of the total endotoxins are associated with the fine particulates. Significant higher endotoxin levels at the urban site were observed throughout the 8-month study period. This could possibly relate to the heavier human activities in the urban areas. The distribution patterns of the 3-OH FAs with respect to carbon number are similar between the rural and urban sites regardless of particle sizes. The C10 and C16 were predominant and accounted for about 40-50% of the total 3-OH FAs. Furthermore, the odd carbon chain length 3-OH FAs constituted a non-negligible fraction (15-25%) of the total 3-OH FAs. The biologically active endotoxins estimated as the sum of C12 and C14 portions in this study ranged from 0.6-3.7 and 1.9-4.8ngm^-^3 at the rural and urban sites, respectively. Applying the biomarker-to-microbial mass conversion factors, the dry mass loading of the Gram-negative bacteria are in the order of 10-10^2ngm^-^3 in atmospheric aerosol. This study also demonstrates that the biomarker (3-OH FAs) approach yields much more quantitative information such as the mass loading, total endotoxin concentration and estimation of potent endotoxin level in the atmospheric aerosol.

Airborne viable, non-viable, and allergenic fungi in a rural agricultural area of India: a 2-year study at five outdoor sampling stations [An article from: Science of the Total Environment, The]

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Airborne viable, non-viable, and allergenic fungi in a rural agricultural area of India: a 2-year study at five outdoor sampling stations [An article from: Science of the Total Environment, The]
A. Adhikari , M.M. Sen , S. Gupta-Bhattacharya , and Chan
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The information on airborne allergenic fungal flora in rural agricultural areas is largely lacking. Adequate information is not available to the bioaerosol researchers regarding the choice of single versus multiple sampling stations for the monitoring of both viable and non-viable airborne fungi. There is no long-term study estimating the ratios of viable and non-viable fungi in the air and earlier studies did not focus on the fractions of airborne allergenic fungi with respect to the total airborne fungal load. To fill these knowledge gaps, volumetric paired assessments of airborne viable and non-viable fungi were performed in five outdoor sampling stations during two consecutive years in a rural agricultural area of India. Samples were collected at 10-day intervals by the Burkard Personal Slide Sampler and the Andersen Two-Stage Viable Sampler. The data on the concentrations of total and individual fungal types from five stations and 2 different years were analyzed and compared by statistical methods. The allergenicity of the prevalent airborne viable fungi was estimated by the skin-prick tests of >100 rural allergy patients using the antigenic fungal extracts from isolates collected with the Andersen sampler. The ranges of total fungal spore concentration were 82-2365 spores per cubic meter of air (spores/m^3) in the first sampling year and 156-2022 spores/m^3 in the second sampling year. The concentration ranges of viable fungi were 72-1796 colony-forming units per cubic meter of air (CFU/m^3) in the first sampling year and 155-1256 CFU/m^3 in the second sampling year. No statistically significant difference was observed between the total spore data of the 2 years, however, the data between five stations showed a significant difference (P <0.0001). No statistically significant difference existed between stations and years with respect to the concentration of viable fungi. When the data of individual allergenic fungal concentrations were compared between stations and years, no statistically significant difference was observed in all cases except for Aspergillus japonicus and Rhizopus nigricans, which showed significant difference in case of stations and years, respectively. The ratios between the total fungal spores collected by the Burkard sampler and the viable fungi collected by the Andersen sampler from all sampling stations ranged between 0.29 and 7.61. The antigenic extracts of eight prevalent viable airborne fungi (A. flavus, A. japonicus, A. fumigatus, Alternaria alternata, Cladosporium cladosporioides, Curvularia pallescens, Fusarium roseum, and R. nigricans) demonstrated >60% positive reactions in the skin prick test. These selected allergenic fungi collectively represented 31.7-63.2% of the total airborne viable fungi in different stations. The study concluded that: (i) a rich fungal airspora existed in the rural study area, (ii) to achieve representative information on the total airborne fungal spores of an area, the monitoring in multiple sampling stations is preferable over a single sampling station; for viable fungi, however, one station can be considered, (iii) the percentage of airborne fungal viability is higher in rural agricultural areas, and (iv) approximately 52% of the viable airborne fungi in the rural study area were allergenic.

Ambient bioaerosol indices for indoor air quality assessments of flood reclamation [An article from: Journal of Aerosol Science]

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Ambient bioaerosol indices for indoor air quality assessments of flood reclamation [An article from: Journal of Aerosol Science]
M.P. Fabian , S.L. Miller , T. Reponen , and M Hernandez
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An air quality study was conducted in arid-region residences that were cleaned and reoccupied following a major regional flood (Arkansas River, Colorado, USA). This demonstration study leveraged a suite of aerosol measurements to assess the effects of common flood reclamation practices on indoor air quality. These assays included (i) optical counting (OPC) of airborne particulate matter (0.3-5@mm optical diameter), (ii) composite observations of volatile organic compounds (VOC), (iii) culturing and direct microscopic counts of airborne bacteria and fungi, and (iv) air-exchange rate measurements. As judged by OPC, most of the flood damaged homes surveyed had higher concentrations of airborne particulate matter indoors than outdoors; the same trend was observed for selected VOC. When compared to large literature databases, culturing from air samples collected in houses reclaimed from flood damage had significantly higher airborne microorganism levels than in houses where no flood damage had occurred-in many cases this difference was between two and three orders of magnitude. As determined by direct epifluorescence microscopy, total airborne microorganism concentrations were 3-1000 times higher than those recovered by conventional culturing. In flood damaged homes, biological particles averaged 52% of the total particles measured indoors, and 18% of the total particles measured immediately outdoors. Relative differences between the indoor and outdoor concentrations of airborne particulate matter, microorganisms, and associated VOCs, suggested that flood-impacted building materials were sustaining high aerosol bioburdens and contributing to poor indoor air quality more than 3 months after the structures had been reclaimed from flood damage.

Bioaerosol characterization by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) [An article from: Journal of Aerosol Science]

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Bioaerosol characterization by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) [An article from: Journal of Aerosol Science]
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