Bacteria and free-living amoeba in the Lascaux Cave

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-40

  Bastian, Fabiola ^a   Alabouvette, Claude ^a   Saiz Jimenez, Cesareo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Benzalkonium chloride; Lascaux Cave; Pathogens; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; AFIPIA; AIR CONDITIONING; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COOLING TOWER; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEGIONELLA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA PICKETTII; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

AIR CONDITIONING; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CONFINED SPACES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; PAINTINGS;

FUSARIUM SOLANI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 58149330440     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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