Release of free DNA by membrane-impaired bacterial aerosols due to aerosolization and air sampling

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 7780-7789

  Zhen, Huajun ^a   Han, Taewon ^a   Fennell, Donna E ^a   Mainelis, Gediminas ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS ATROPHAEUS; BACTERIAL AEROSOLS; BACTERIAL SPECIES; CELL MEMBRANE DAMAGES; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION; FREE MOLECULES; SAMPLING METHOD; SUPERNATANT LIQUIDS;

AEROSOLS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; DAMAGE DETECTION; DNA; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RNA;

LIQUIDS;

AEROSOL; AIR SAMPLING; DNA; FILTRATION; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BACILLUS; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORSES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84888220745     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02859-13     Document Type: Article

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