Microbial survey of the mummies from the capuchin catacombs of palermo, italy: Biodeterioration risk and contamination of the indoor air

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 341-356

  Piñar, Guadalupe ^a   Piombino Mascali, Dario ^b   Maixner, Frank ^b   Zink, Albert ^b   Sterflinger, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Degradation; DGGE; Discoloration; Indoor air quality; Microbial communities; Sequencing analyses

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIODEGRADATION; BONE; FUNGUS; HAIR; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROKARYOTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DEGRADATION; DGGE; DISCOLORATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SEQUENCING ANALYSES;

DEGRADATION; DGGE; DISCOLORATION; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; SEQUENCING ANALYSES;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; FUNGI; HUMANS; ITALY; MUMMIES; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ITALY; PALERMO [SICILY]; SICILY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIALES; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM RADICUM;

EID: 84885952348     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12165     Document Type: Article

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