Particulate matter and bacteria characteristics of the Middle East Dust (MED) storms over Ahvaz, Iran

Aerobiologia

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 345-356

  Goudarzi, Gholamreza ^a   Shirmardi, Mohammad ^a   Khodarahmi, Fatemeh ^a   Hashemi Shahraki, Abdolrazagh ^a   Alavi, Nadali ^a   Ankali, Kambiz Ahmadi ^a   Babaei, Ali Akbar ^a   Soleimani, Zahra ^b   Marzouni, Mohammad Bagherian ^c  

^a AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SEMNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ahvaz; Airborne bacteria; Dust event days; Khuzestan; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; IRAN; KOCURIA; MIDDLE EAST DUST STORM; NONHUMAN; PAENIBACILLUS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; STREPTOMYCES; TRAFFIC; WEATHER;

EID: 84911960408     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: 15733025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-014-9333-7     Document Type: Article

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