Cleanroom maintenance significantly reduces abundance but not diversity of indoor microbiomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Mahnert, Alexander ^a,b   Vaishampayan, Parag ^b   Probst, Alexander J ^c   Auerbach, Anna ^d   Moissl Eichinger, Christine ^d,e,f   Venkateswaran, Kasthuri ^b   Berg, Gabriele ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f BIOTECHMED GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; RNA 16S; AZIDE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; PROPIDIUM MONOAZIDE;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDETES; CELL VIABILITY; CLEANING; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; HALOFERAX; HALOMONAS; HALOPHILE; HUMIDITY; LEPTOTRICHIA; MESOPHILE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PEDOBACTER; PH; PHENYLOBACTERIUM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROSTHECOBACTER; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOXANTHOMONAS; RICKETTSIACEAE; SHEWANELLA; SKERMANELLA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPHINGOBIUM; SPOROSARCINA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE; VERRUCOMICROBIA; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ARCHAEON; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROCLIMATE; MICROFLORA; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; AZIDES; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MAINTENANCE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; PROPIDIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84942897262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134848     Document Type: Article

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