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Studies of the loss of viability of stored bacterial aerosols*. II. Death rates of several non-pathogenic organisms in relation to biological and structural characteristics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Ronald M. Ferry ,
William F. Brown  and
Edwin B. Damon
Ronald M. Ferry
Affiliation:
Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
William F. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Edwin B. Damon
Affiliation:
Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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For several decades bacteriologists and epidemiologists have been interested in the survival of micro-organisms in the airborne state. Studies by many investigators, recently summarized by Wells (1955), have produced data concerning certain aspects of bacterial survival or death, but the information has not generally sufficed to permit quantitative analysis when a fluid environment was changed in the airborne state.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , March 1958 , pp. 125 - 150
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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