Assessment of bioaerosols in urban and rural primary schools using passive and active sampling methodologies

Abstract

People spend most of their time in indoor environments and, consequently, these environments are more significant for the contribution of the daily pollutant exposure than outdoors. In case of children, a great part of their time is spent at school. Therefore, evaluations of this microenvironment are important to assess their time-weighted exposure to air pollutants.

Keywords

• primary schools
• indoor air quality
• bioaerosols
• pollens
• fungi
• bacteria
• urban and rural