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Exposure to aerosolized fungi among collectors of recyclable and mixed residential waste / Nurfatin Khairiah Zulkifli

Introduction: Bioaerosols the microbial particulate matter that may contain pathogenic, infectious and toxic live bacteria, fungi and viruses. Fungi are the common bioaerosols and constitute an essential part of the solid waste. Waste collectors have the high risks to the exposure of bioaerosols at...

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Main Author:	Zulkifli, Nurfatin Khairiah
Format:	Student Project
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Ecosystem health Influence of special factors in the environment Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Environmental health. Including sewage disposal, air pollution, nuisances, water supply Environmental pollution
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spelling	my.uitm.ir.458172021-05-31T08:14:03Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45817/ Exposure to aerosolized fungi among collectors of recyclable and mixed residential waste / Nurfatin Khairiah Zulkifli Zulkifli, Nurfatin Khairiah Ecosystem health Influence of special factors in the environment Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Environmental health. Including sewage disposal, air pollution, nuisances, water supply Environmental pollution Introduction: Bioaerosols the microbial particulate matter that may contain pathogenic, infectious and toxic live bacteria, fungi and viruses. Fungi are the common bioaerosols and constitute an essential part of the solid waste. Waste collectors have the high risks to the exposure of bioaerosols at their working environment, waste collectors are the one who handling the wastes almost every day for a long period. Various health impacts can resulted from the bioaerosols exposure including allergies, acute toxic effects, respiratory symptoms and cancer. The objectives of this study was to characterize recyclable and mixed residential waste, to quantify the culturable aerosolized fungi that exposed towards waste collectors and to compare them between recycle waste and mixed residential waste collectors. Also to evaluate the influence of outdoor temperature and relative humidity to the concentration of culturable aerosolized fungi. Methodology: Residential areas in Kuala Lumpur were selected in this study because the growing of waste generation every year in that city. One sample of each waste was collected and characterized according to their composition at lab. The sampling was done for four days for each waste which were recyclable and mixed residential waste collectors. Aerosolized fungi was sampled using air sampling pump that was attached at the waste collector’s body throughout their working hours. The cassette was replaced every 30 minutes with a new one. The colony forming unit of culturable fungi were calculated after it is cultured and incubated for 5-7 days. Outdoor temperature and relative humidity that influence the colony count also were recorded during the sampling process to analyze their relationship. Result: The findings obtained from this study shows that throughout the four days, the colony count of aerosolized fungi that exposed towards the waste collectors from mixed residential waste was higher than the recyclable waste and it was not statistically significant where p-value was 0.093 (p<0.05). For correlation between concentrations of aerosolized fungi exposed from recyclable waste with temperature and relative humidity, they have strong relationship where positively correlated for temperature (r: 0.632) but negatively correlated for relative humidity (r: -0.594). For recyclable waste, both of this correlations were statistically significant (p: 0.00). Correlation between the concentration of aerosolized fungi exposed from mixed residential waste also have strong relationship for both temperature (r: 0.819) and relative humidity (r: -0.799) with positive and negative value respectively. These relationships also were statistically significant. Conclusion: In conclusion, higher concentration of aerosolized fungi exposed towards the waste collectors was influenced by several factors including the type of waste collected, collection truck, manual handling also total hours of working and handling wastes. Besides that, temperature and relative humidity of the surrounding also were the contributing factors to the high colony count of aerosolized fungi. 2017-07 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45817/1/45817.pdf ID45817 Zulkifli, Nurfatin Khairiah (2017) Exposure to aerosolized fungi among collectors of recyclable and mixed residential waste / Nurfatin Khairiah Zulkifli. [Student Project] (Unpublished)
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topic	Ecosystem health Influence of special factors in the environment Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Environmental health. Including sewage disposal, air pollution, nuisances, water supply Environmental pollution
spellingShingle	Ecosystem health Influence of special factors in the environment Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Environmental health. Including sewage disposal, air pollution, nuisances, water supply Environmental pollution Zulkifli, Nurfatin Khairiah Exposure to aerosolized fungi among collectors of recyclable and mixed residential waste / Nurfatin Khairiah Zulkifli
description	Introduction: Bioaerosols the microbial particulate matter that may contain pathogenic, infectious and toxic live bacteria, fungi and viruses. Fungi are the common bioaerosols and constitute an essential part of the solid waste. Waste collectors have the high risks to the exposure of bioaerosols at their working environment, waste collectors are the one who handling the wastes almost every day for a long period. Various health impacts can resulted from the bioaerosols exposure including allergies, acute toxic effects, respiratory symptoms and cancer. The objectives of this study was to characterize recyclable and mixed residential waste, to quantify the culturable aerosolized fungi that exposed towards waste collectors and to compare them between recycle waste and mixed residential waste collectors. Also to evaluate the influence of outdoor temperature and relative humidity to the concentration of culturable aerosolized fungi. Methodology: Residential areas in Kuala Lumpur were selected in this study because the growing of waste generation every year in that city. One sample of each waste was collected and characterized according to their composition at lab. The sampling was done for four days for each waste which were recyclable and mixed residential waste collectors. Aerosolized fungi was sampled using air sampling pump that was attached at the waste collector’s body throughout their working hours. The cassette was replaced every 30 minutes with a new one. The colony forming unit of culturable fungi were calculated after it is cultured and incubated for 5-7 days. Outdoor temperature and relative humidity that influence the colony count also were recorded during the sampling process to analyze their relationship. Result: The findings obtained from this study shows that throughout the four days, the colony count of aerosolized fungi that exposed towards the waste collectors from mixed residential waste was higher than the recyclable waste and it was not statistically significant where p-value was 0.093 (p<0.05). For correlation between concentrations of aerosolized fungi exposed from recyclable waste with temperature and relative humidity, they have strong relationship where positively correlated for temperature (r: 0.632) but negatively correlated for relative humidity (r: -0.594). For recyclable waste, both of this correlations were statistically significant (p: 0.00). Correlation between the concentration of aerosolized fungi exposed from mixed residential waste also have strong relationship for both temperature (r: 0.819) and relative humidity (r: -0.799) with positive and negative value respectively. These relationships also were statistically significant. Conclusion: In conclusion, higher concentration of aerosolized fungi exposed towards the waste collectors was influenced by several factors including the type of waste collected, collection truck, manual handling also total hours of working and handling wastes. Besides that, temperature and relative humidity of the surrounding also were the contributing factors to the high colony count of aerosolized fungi.
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title	Exposure to aerosolized fungi among collectors of recyclable and mixed residential waste / Nurfatin Khairiah Zulkifli
title_short	Exposure to aerosolized fungi among collectors of recyclable and mixed residential waste / Nurfatin Khairiah Zulkifli
title_full	Exposure to aerosolized fungi among collectors of recyclable and mixed residential waste / Nurfatin Khairiah Zulkifli
title_fullStr	Exposure to aerosolized fungi among collectors of recyclable and mixed residential waste / Nurfatin Khairiah Zulkifli
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publishDate	2017
url	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45817/1/45817.pdf http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/45817/
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Exposure to aerosolized fungi among collectors of recyclable and mixed residential waste / Nurfatin Khairiah Zulkifli

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