Methods of sampling airborne fungi in working environments of waste treatment facilities

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/16:10337172 RIV/60460709:41330/16:74164

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13075/ijomeh.1896.00568" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.13075/ijomeh.1896.00568</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13075/ijomeh.1896.00568" target="_blank" >10.13075/ijomeh.1896.00568</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Methods of sampling airborne fungi in working environments of waste treatment facilities

Original language description

The objective of the present study was to evaluate and compare the efficiency of a filter based sampling method and a high volume sampling method for sampling airborne culturable fungi present in waste sorting facilities. Membrane filters method was compared with surface air system method. The selected sampling methods were modified and tested in 2 plastic waste sorting facilities. The total number of colony-forming units (CFU)/m3 of airborne fungi was dependent on the type of sampling device, on the time of sampling, which was carried out every hour from the beginning of the work shift, and on the type of cultivation medium (p < 0.001). Detected concentrations of airborne fungi ranged 2102-1.7106 CFU/m3 when using the membrane filters (MF) method, and 3102-6.4104 CFU/m3 when using the surface air system (SAS) method. Both methods showed comparable sensitivity to the fluctuations of the concentrations of airborne fungi during the work shifts. The SAS method is adequate for a fast indicative determination of concentration of airborne fungi. The MF method is suitable for thorough assessment of working environment contamination by airborne fungi. Therefore we recommend the MF method for the implementation of a uniform standard methodology of airborne fungi sampling in working environments of waste treatment facilities.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EF - Botany

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

ISSN

1232-1087

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

493-502

UT code for WoS article

000372970100013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84968538111