Comparison of a personal sampling technique with a Six-Stage Andersen Cascade Impactor for viable bacterial aerosols in a mushroom plant

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Title Comparison of a personal sampling technique with a Six-Stage Andersen Cascade Impactor for viable bacterial aerosols in a mushroom plant
Publication Type thesis
School or College School of Medicine
Department Family & Preventive Medicine
Author Marcinko, Robert James
Date 1981-08
Description A personal sampling method employing the use of an MSA sampling pump and Gelman 0.8 micron membrane filter was compared with a Six Stage Andersen Cascade Impactor for sampling viable bacterial aerosols in a mushroom plant. Four separate sets of samples were taken. Included within each set of samples were eleven membrane filter samples taken simultaneously for ten minutes and two separate sixty second Andersen Impactor samples taken within the ten minute sampling period. All samples were obtained at one location. Microbial concentrations from the Gelman filters were determined by first placing the filter in a nutrient broth and suspending the collected organisms within the broth. The suspension was then plated onto a nutrient agar medium and the resulting colonies counted. The microbial concentrations from the Gelman filters were found to be quite variable within each sample set and were significantly different from the concentrations obtained with the Andersen Microbial Sampler. A stong linear relationship was present when the mean values from the data groups for the two sampling methods were compared. When comparing individual personal sampling method values with the mean values from the Andersen Microbial Sampler, a moderate to good linear relationship was found.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Air Sampling Apparatus; Microorganisms; Agricultural Workers
Subject MESH Air Microbiology; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Illness; Environmental Health; Microbiological Techniques
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "A Comparison of a personal sampling technique with a Six-Stage Andersen Cascade Impactor for viable bacterial aerosols in a mushroom plant." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "A Comparison of a personal sampling technique with a Six-Stage Andersen Cascade Impactor for viable bacterial aerosols in a mushroom plant" available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections. RA 4.5 1981 M37.
Rights Management © Robert James Marcinko.
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Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
Funding/Fellowship National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health training grant number 5 T15 OH 07141.
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6m0477n
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