Microbial Deterioration of Artistic Tiles from the Façade of the Grande Albergo Ausonia & Hungaria (Venice, Italy)

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 287-298

  Giacomucci, Lucia ^a   Bertoncello, Renzo ^b   Salvadori, Ornella ^c   Martini, Ilaria ^b   Favaro, Monica ^d   Villa, Federica ^a   Sorlini, Claudia ^a   Cappitelli, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Laboratorio Scientifico   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ART; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BUILDING MATERIAL; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PH; RNA GENE;

ART; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CERAMICS; COLOR; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; CYANOBACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGI; GENES, RRNA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ITALY; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 80051674098     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9812-0     Document Type: Article

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