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[A membrane filter sampling method for determining microbial air pollution].

P Cherneva·A Kiranova
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The method is a contribution in the evaluation of the exposition and the control of the standards for organic powders. The method concerns the sample-taking procedure and the analysis-making technique for determining of the concentration of the microbial pollution of the air. It is based on filtering of some amount of air through a membrane filter which is then processed for cultivating of microbial colonies on its surface. The results are obtained in number of microbial colonies per unit of air. The method presents opportunity to select and vary the filtered volume of air, to determine the respirable fraction, to determine the personal exposition, as well as for the simultaneous determining of the microbial pollution together with other important parameters of the particle pollutants of the air (metal, fibre and others).

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P Cherneva, A Kiranova. 1996. [A membrane filter sampling method for determining microbial air pollution].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9190588/

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