Fungal and bacterial communities in indoor dust follow different environmental determinants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Weikl, Fabian ^a   Tischer, Christina ^a,b   Probst, Alexander J ^c   Heinrich, Joachim ^a,d   Markevych, Iana ^a,d   Jochner, Susanne ^e   Pritsch, Karin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; GERMANY; HOUSE DUST; HOUSEHOLD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; PARTICULATE MATTER; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FAMILY SIZE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOUSING; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

BACTERIAL DNA; DUST; FUNGAL DNA; PARTICULATE MATTER; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 16S;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BACTERIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FUNGI; GERMANY; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROBIOTA; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84964660302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154131     Document Type: Article

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