Impacts of flood damage on airborne bacteria and fungi in homes after the 2013 Colorado front range flood

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2675-2684

  Emerson, Joanne B ^a   Keady, Patricia B ^b   Brewer, Tess E ^a   Clements, Nicholas ^b   Morgan, Emily E ^a   Awerbuch, Jonathan ^b   Miller, Shelly L ^b   Fierer, Noah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; FLOOD DAMAGE; FUNGI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

AIRBORNE BACTERIA; BACTERIAL ABUNDANCE; COLORADO FRONT RANGE; COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITIONS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

FLOODS;

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL RNA; FUNGAL RNA;

AIR SAMPLING; ALLERGY; ASTHMA; BACTERIUM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; FUNGUS; INDOOR AIR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AIRBORNE FUNGUS; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FLOODING; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; HOME; HUMIDITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; UNITED STATES; BACTERIUM; DISASTER; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY;

BOULDER; COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PSEUDOMONADACEAE;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; BACTERIA; COLORADO; DISASTERS; FLOODS; FUNGI; HUMANS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84924071396     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503845j     Document Type: Article

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