TY - BOOK ID - 133912312 TI - Health Effects and Exposure Assessment to Bioaerosols in Indoor and Outdoor Environments PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Humanities KW - Social interaction KW - radiant catalytic ionization KW - Enterococcus spp. KW - Clostridioides difficile KW - Staphylococcus aureus KW - MRSA KW - indoor air KW - microbiological indoor air quality (MIAQ) KW - bacterial aerosol (BA) KW - size distribution KW - gymnastic hall KW - multi-antibiotic resistance (MAR) KW - indoor microclimate KW - decentralized façade ventilation KW - air quality KW - indoor air quality KW - microbiological contamination KW - heterotrophic bacteria KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - mannitol-positive staphylococci KW - fungi KW - biological air pollutants KW - fungal aerosol KW - air cleaner KW - life cycle assessment KW - n/a KW - decentralized façade ventilation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133912312 AB - Air pollution, due to natural and anthropogenic sources, incurs enormous environmental costs. The issue of healthy living spaces and good air quality is a global concern, because each individual inhales 15,000 L of air every 24 h. Thus, contemporary monitoring and reducing exposure to air pollutants presents a particular challenge. One of the crucial indicators of indoor and outdoor air quality is bioaerosols. They play an instrumental role as risk factors when it comes to adverse health outcome. These indicators, also known as primary biological airborne particles (PBAPs), have been linked to various health effects such as infectious diseases, toxic effects, allergies, and even cancer. PBAPs include all particles with a biological source in suspension in the air (bacteria, fungi, viruses, and pollen), as well as biomolecules (toxins, and debris from membranes). To foster our current scientific knowledge on bioaerosols, research related to the characteristics of biological aerosols in indoor and outdoor environments, the methods used to improve air quality, as well as the health effects of and exposure assessments to bioaerosols, have been collected in this book. ER -