Global transport of thermophilic bacteria in atmospheric dust

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 333-339

  Perfumo, Amedea ^a   Marchant, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACILLUS; GEOBACILLUS PALLIDUS; GEOBACILLUS THERMODENITRIFICANS; GEOBACILLUS THERMOGLUCOSIDASIUS;

EID: 78649709746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00143.x     Document Type: Article

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