Bioaerosols Handbook

Media:	Hardcover
Author:	Christopher S. Cox, Christopher M. Wathes
Publisher:	CRC Press
Release date:	29 March, 1995
List price:	~~$149.95~~
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Bioaerosols Handbook

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The bioaerosols "bible"

Considered by some to be THE overview reference book for bioaerosols, it covers their physical aspects, sampling, sample stability, instrument calibration, and multiple measurement approaches. It also describes problems specific to residential and industrial environments, including laboratories, hospitals, animal houses, and the particulars of pollen, fungi, molds, and bacteria.

I'm writing this review in 2005, and some of the material is a bit dated. The review of laser and optical measurement techniques gives some good background, but is no longer state of the art. Nevertheless, it is a very valuable reference for anyone studying bioaerosols for environmental or homeland security considerations.

Bioaerosols Handbook - Christopher S. Cox, Christopher M. Wathes

The Bioaerosols Handbook

The handbook deals with the subject of bioaerosols on a broad but in depth basis. It deals with the practicalities of sampling, calibration and sample assay methods without being too theoretical. It's style is both technical but easy to read and understand, being written by experts from around the world. Each chapter has its own approach giving a refreshingly different perspective of each aspect of bioaerosol analysis. It's really a bioaerosol bible for anyone interested in biological aerosols and $... isn't bad for 600+ pages with a limited circulation. By the way it's brief specifically excluded viruses, so they don't get a lot of text devoted to them compared to bacteria, fungi etc.

It hasn't dated that much either since 1995 (I am writing in 2001). Indeed even classic texts like 'The microbiology of the atmosphere' PH Gregory: Leonard Hill (1973) still pack in a lot of relevent data - I still love reading this book as well.

By the way I wrote the chapter on Modern Microscopic Methods in the handbook - but I get no payment for sales or endorsement and I think the other twenty chapters are great.

Why not also try a library loan of:

1. Atmospheric Microbial Aerosols, B.Lighthart, A.J.Mohr, Chapman & Hall, 1994

2. The Aerobiological Pathway of Microorganisms, C.S.Cox, Wiley Press, 1987

3. Architectural Design and Indoor Microbial Pollution, R.B.Kundsin, Oxford University Press, 1988

Or check out the long reference lists in the Bioaerosol Handbook.

Christopher S. Cox, Christopher M. Wathes - Bioaerosols Handbook

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