Human pathogens abundant in the bacterial metagenome of cigarettes

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 351-356

  Sapkota, Amy R ^a,b   Berger, Sibel ^b   Vogel, Timothy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bacterial metagenome; Cigarettes; Pathogens; Smoking; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BURKHOLDERIA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLONING; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; KLEBSIELLA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; METAGENOME; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS;

ACINETOBACTER; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; KLEBSIELLA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PROTEUS (ENTEROBACTERIA); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 77649209870     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901201     Document Type: Article

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