Abstract
Passive settle plate method and active impaction method are two most commonly used methods for bioaerosols’ sampling and surveillance. Passive method is a relatively low-cost method for bioaerosols’ surveillance. The current study intends to compare the efficiency of active and passive methods of bioaerosol sampling for temporal surveillance at different source sites. It was observed that the temporal measurements of bioaerosol by both methods were strongly correlated. Thus, both methods can be used for bioaerosol surveillance. The results of effect of putative factors by both methods were relatively comparable to a larger extent. This finding is highly significant for resource constraint setting where the use of active method is not cost effective for temporal surveillance and research purpose.
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Authors are thankful to Department of Science and Technology (DST) Purse Grant and Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF), Government of India, for supporting the research work financially.
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Balyan, P., Ghosh, C., Das, S., Banerjee, B.D. (2020). Comparison of Efficiency of Active and Passive Methods of Bioaerosols’ Estimation. In: Sharma, A., Goyal, R., Mittal, R. (eds) Indoor Environmental Quality. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 60. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1334-3_10
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