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Investigation of the Concentration of Bacteria and Their Cell Envelope Components in Indoor Air in Two Elementary Schools

L.-J. Sally Liu Department of Environmental Health, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Mark Krahmer Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
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Alvin Fox Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
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Charles E. Feigley Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
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Ashley Featherstone Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
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Anita Saraf Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Lund, Sweden
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Lennart Larsson Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Lund, Sweden
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Pages 1957-1967 | Published online: 27 Dec 2011

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