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Health effects of indoor-air microorganisms

Husman, T.
1996
Scand J Work Environ Health, 22(1):5-13

Husman, T., (1996), "Health effects of indoor-air microorganisms", Scand J Work Environ Health, 22(1):5-13.
Abstract:
The review provides a summary and discussion of current data on exposure to indoor-air microorganisms and their health effects, for example, respiratory irritation and nonspecific symptoms, respiratory infections, asthma and allergy, alveolitis and organic dust toxic syndrome, and chronic bronchitis, as well as a summary and discussion of the health effects of mycotoxins.

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Husman, T.
National Public Health Institute, Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Kuopio, Finland.
  1. An approach to management of critical indoor air problems in school buildings
  2. Analysis of moisture findings in the interior spaces of Finnish housing stock
  3. Characteristics of moisture damage in houses and their association with self-reported symptoms of the occupants
  4. Comparison of two-level and three-level classifications of moisture-damaged dwellings in relation to health effects
  5. Control of exposure to airborne viable microorganisms during remediation of moldy buildings; report of three case studies
  6. Effect of building frame and moisture damage on microbiological indoor air quality in school buildings
  7. Indoor air microbes and respiratory symptoms of children in moisture damaged and reference schools
  8. Knowledge-based and statistically modeled relationships between residential moisture damage and occupant reported health symptoms
  9. Moisture damage in schools - symptoms and indoor air microbes
  10. Moisture, mold and health in apartment homes
  11. Size distributions of airborne microbes in moisture-damaged and reference school buildings of two construction types
  12. The relationship between moisture or mould observations in houses and the state of health of their occupants  


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