Origin-Dependent Variations in the Atmospheric Microbiome Community in Eastern Mediterranean Dust Storms

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 6709-6718

  Gat, Daniella ^a   Mazar, Yinon ^a   Cytryn, Eddie ^b   Rudich, Yinon ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENES; HEALTH; MICROORGANISMS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL TAXA; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; SINGLE LOCATION;

STORMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DUST; DUST STORM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENE; HEALTH IMPACT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; TRAJECTORY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; SAUDI ARABIA; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; AFRICA; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; MICROFLORA;

ISRAEL; NORTH AFRICA; SAUDI ARABIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AFRICA, NORTHERN; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MICROBIOTA; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 85021638248     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b00362     Document Type: Article

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