Free-living amoebae: Health concerns in the indoor environment

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1520/STP25332S· OSTI ID:6809063

Tyndall, R L; Ironside, K S

Free-living amoebae are the most likely protozoa implicated in health concerns of the indoor environment. These amoebae can be the source of allergic reactions, eye infections or, on rare occasions, encephalitis. While too large to be effectively aerosolized, free- living amoebae can support the multiplication of pathogens such as Legionella which are easily aerosolized and infectious via the pulmonary route. Traditional detection methods for free-living amoebae are laborious and time consuming. Newer techniques for rapidly detecting and quantitating free-living amoebae such as monoclonal antibodies, flow cytometry, gene probes, and laser optics have or could be employed. 25 refs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6809063
• Report Number(s): CONF-8907193-1; ON: DE90012167
• Resource Relation: Conference: ASTM conference on bioaerosols in the indoor environment, Boulder, CO (USA), 18-21 Jul 1989
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
PATHOGENS
HEALTH HAZARDS
AIR
ALLERGY
AMOEBA
CELL FLOW SYSTEMS
CLASSIFICATION
ECOLOGY
ENCEPHALITIS
INDOOR AIR POLLUTION
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
LEGIONELLA ANISA
MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES
OPTICS
PATHOGENESIS
PROBES
REMEDIAL ACTION
SAMPLING
AIR POLLUTION
ANIMALS
ANTIBODIES
BACTERIA
DISEASES
FLUIDS
GASES
HAZARDS
INVERTEBRATES
MICROORGANISMS
NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES
PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES
POLLUTION
PROTOZOA
SARCODINA
VIRAL DISEASES
550900* - Pathology