Chamber bioaerosol study: Outdoor air and human occupants as sources of indoor airborne microbes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Adams, Rachel I ^a   Bhangar, Seema ^b   Pasut, Wilmer ^c,d   Arens, Edward A ^c   Taylor, John W ^a   Lindow, Steven E ^a   Nazaroff, William W ^b   Bruns, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AIRBORNE FUNGUS; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOINFORMATICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DUST; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OUTDOOR AIR; SITTING; SPECIES COMPOSITION; WALKING; AEROSOL; ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGUS; GENETICS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

AEROSOL; AIR;

AEROSOLS; AIR; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGI; HUMANS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA;

EID: 84932649556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128022     Document Type: Article

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