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Evaluation of portable air samplers for monitoring airborne culturable bacteriaAirborne culturable bacteria were monitored at five locations (three in an office/laboratory building and two in a private residence) in a series of experiments designed to compare the efficiency of four air samplers: the Andersen two-stage, Burkard portable, RCS Plus, and SAS Super 90 samplers. A total of 280 samples was collected. The four samplers were operated simultaneously, each sampling 100 L of air with collection on trypticase soy agar. The data were corrected by applying positive hole conversion factors for the Burkard portable, Andersen two-stage, and SAS Super 90 air samplers, and were expressed as log10 values prior to statistical analysis by analysis of variance. The Burkard portable air sampler retrieved the highest number of airborne culturable bacteria at four of the five sampling sites, followed by the SAS Super 90 and the Andersen two-stage impactor. The number of bacteria retrieved by the RCS Plus was significantly less than those retrieved by the other samplers. Among the predominant bacterial genera retrieved by all samplers were Staphylococcus, Bacillus, Corynebacterium, Micrococcus, and Streptococcus.
Document ID
20040112567
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Mehta, S. K.
(Enterprise Advisory Services Inc. Houston, TX 77058, United States)
Bell-Robinson, D. M.
Groves, T. O.
Stetzenbach, L. D.
Pierson, D. L.
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 2000
Publication Information
Publication: AIHAJ : a journal for the science of occupational and environmental health and safety
Volume: 61
Issue: 6
ISSN: 1529-8663
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
NASA Center JSC
NASA Discipline Environmental Health
Evaluation Studies

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