Impacts of Asian dust events on atmospheric fungal communities

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 81, Issue , 2013, Pages 39-50

  Jeon, Eun Mi ^a   Kim, Yong Pyo ^b   Jeong, Kweon ^a   Kim, Ik Soo ^a   Eom, Suk Won ^a   Choi, Young Zoo ^a   Ka, Jong Ok ^c  

^a Seoul National University Boramae Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Airborne culturable fungal concentration; Allergenic fungi; Asian dust events; ITS clone library; MSQPCR

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE FUNGAL CONCENTRATION; ASIAN DUST EVENT; CLONE LIBRARY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CULTURABLE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACERS; MSQPCR; TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICLES;

ARID REGIONS; CLONING; DUST; LIBRARIES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

FUNGI;

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ALLERGY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIAMETER; DUST; FUNGUS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AIR; AIRBORNE FUNGUS; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA EXTRACTION; DUST; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGUS ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

SEOUL [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84884367369     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.08.039     Document Type: Article

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