Microbial content of house dust samples determined with qPCR

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 4673-4680

  Kaarakainen, Pasi ^a   Rintala, Helena ^a   Vepsäläinen, Asko ^a   Hyvärinen, Anne ^a   Nevalainen, Aino ^a   Meklin, Teija ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Kuopio Innovation Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fungi; House dust; Quantitative PCR; Streptomycetes

Indexed keywords

AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; CLADOSPORIUM HERBARUM; DUST SAMPLES; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HOUSE DUST; MICROBIAL CONCENTRATIONS; MICROBIAL CONTENTS; MICROBIAL SOURCES; MICROBIAL SPECIES; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REPRODUCIBILITY; STREPTOMYCETES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FUNGI; HOUSES; VACUUM; VACUUM CLEANERS;

DUST;

DNA;

BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DUST; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; CLADOSPORIUM; DNA ISOLATION; HOUSE DUST; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; DNA, FUNGAL; DUST; FUNGI; HOUSING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS;

ASPERGILLUS PENICILLIOIDES; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; DAVIDIELLA TASSIANA; FUNGI; STREPTOMYCINEAE;

EID: 67349143098     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.04.046     Document Type: Article

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