Particle size distribution of airborne microorganisms and pathogens during an intense African dust event in the eastern Mediterranean

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 292-296

  Polymenakou, Paraskevi N ^a   Mandalakis, Manolis ^b   Stephanou, Euripides G ^b   Tselepides, Anastasios ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

African dust; Bacterial community composition; Microbial transport; Particle size distribution; Pathogens

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA 16S; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROSOL; AFRICA; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; DUST; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEALTH HAZARD; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; HUMANS; PARTICLE SIZE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES;

EID: 40849120624     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10684     Document Type: Article

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