Application of a broad-range resequencing array for detection of pathogens in desert dust samples from Kuwait and Iraq

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4285-4292

  Leski, Tomasz A ^a   Malanoski, Anthony P ^a   Gregory, Michael J ^a,b   Lin, Baochuan ^a   Stenger, David A ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL SAMPLES; AIRBORNE DUSTS; AIRBORNE PARTICULATE; BIOWARFARES; BRUCELLA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DESERT DUST; HIGH-DENSITY; HUMAN PATHOGENS; HUMAN POPULATION; MICROBIAL COMPONENTS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; REAL-TIME PCR; RESEQUENCING; SENSITIVE TECHNIQUES;

ARID REGIONS; BACTERIOLOGY; DUST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

PATHOGENS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

AIR SAMPLING; ARID REGION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DESERT SOIL; DUST; HEALTH RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TOPSOIL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DUST; GENETICS; HUMAN; IRAQ; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KUWAIT; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DUST; HUMANS; IRAQ; KUWAIT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

IRAQ; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST];

BRUCELLA; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COXIELLA BURNETII; MYCOBACTERIUM;

EID: 79960097162     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00021-11     Document Type: Article

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