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. 2020 Oct 1;755:142615. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142615

Table 1.

Calculation parameters of quantitative microbial risk assessment.

Description Unit Value Reference
Exposure concentrations (ec) log10CFU/m3 Supplementary materials Table 1
Breathing rate (br) L/min Uniform distribution (Min = 9.8; Max = 13.0) MEP-PRC, 2013
Exposure time (t) min Uniform distribution (Min = 8; Max = 20) According to the field survey in this research.
Aerosol ingestion rate (ag) Unitless Supplementary Materials Table 2
Removal fraction by employing PPE (FPPE) Unitless Uniform distribution (Min = 0.95; Max = 0.99) Haas et al., 2017
Annual exposure frequency (n) Number of times 183 According to the field survey in this research.
Staphylococcus aureus bioaerosol Exponential dose–response model (dose–infection model) k Unitless Uniform (Min = 6.46E−8; Max = 1.00E−7) Esfahanian et al., 2019
Prevalence Pill/inf Unitless 1 Busgang et al., 2018
Health burden (HB) DALYs/case 2.60E-3 Havelaar et al., 2012
Escherichia coli bioaerosol Beta-Poisson dose–response model (dose–infection model) α Unitless 1.55E-01 Shi et al., 2018
N50 Unitless 2.11E+06 Shi et al., 2018
Exponential dose–response model (dose–illness model) k Unitless 1.22E-08 Shi et al., 2018
Health burden (HB) DALYs/case 4.55E-2 Shi et al., 2018