Indoor bioaerosol dynamics

Nazaroff, William W

An important and challenging feature of indoor bioaerosol dynamics is characterizing indoor emission sources. From a systematic research perspective, a core advantage of source characterization is that it is likely to provide more generalizable information than would phenomenological studies of concentrations or other outcome variables. The information sought in source characterization would include these factors for any particular bioaerosol analyte: the quantity emitted per time, the size distribution of particles with which the emitted analyte is associated, and the important parameters that influence the emission rate. Depending on the particular source, experiments to investigate emissions might suitably be conducted in a bench-scale laboratory apparatus, in a room scale chamber, or through controlled field monitoring.