Bacterial communities in commercial aircraft high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters assessed by PhyloChip analysis

Indoor Air

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-61

  Korves, T M ^a   Piceno, Y M ^b   Tom, L M ^b   Desantis, T Z ^c   Jones, B W ^d   Andersen, G L ^b   Hwang, G M ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Bioinformatics ^*  (United States)

^d Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

Author keywords

16S; Aircraft biosensor; High efficiency particulate air filter; Infectious diseases; Microbial diversity; Probe design

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIR FILTERS; AIRCRAFT; BANDPASS FILTERS; BIOSENSORS; EFFICIENCY; ERRORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PATHOGENS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROBES; RNA;

16S; AIRCRAFT BIOSENSOR; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; HIGH-EFFICIENCY PARTICULATE AIR FILTERS; HUMAN PATHOGENS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; OUTDOOR AIR; PROBE DESIGN;

BACTERIA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84872389154     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: 16000668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2012.00787.x     Document Type: Article

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