Microbial communities associated with house dust

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-120

  Rintala, Helena ^a,c   Pitkäranta, Miia ^b   Täubel, Martin ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Mikrobioni Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Fungi; House dust; Indoor environment; Microbial diversity; Microbial flora

Indexed keywords

ACREMONIUM; ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; AUREOBASIDIUM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHAETOMIUM; CLADOSPORIUM; DORMANCY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUROTIUM; FUNGUS; FUSARIUM; GEOGRAPHY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROFLORA; MOISTURE; MUCOR; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM BREVICOMPACTUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PET ANIMAL; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCOPULARIOPSIS; SEASON; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; TRICHODERMA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; BUILDING MATERIAL; DUST; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADOSPORIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM; FUNGI; LACTOCOCCUS; PENICILLIUM; POSIBACTERIA;

DUST;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ASPERGILLUS; CLADOSPORIUM; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DUST; FUNGI;

EID: 84856505054     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394805-2.00004-X     Document Type: Chapter

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