Bioaerosol biomonitoring: Sampling optimization for molecular microbial ecology.

ABSTRACT: Bioaerosols (or biogenic aerosols) have largely been overlooked by molecular ecologists. However, this is rapidly changing as bioaerosols play key roles in public health, environmental chemistry and the dispersal ecology of microbes. Due to the low environmental concentrations of bioaerosols, collecting sufficient biomass for molecular methods is challenging. Currently, no standardized methods for bioaerosol collection for molecular ecology research exist. Each study requires a process of optimization, which greatly slows the advance of bioaerosol science. Here, we evaluated air filtration and liquid impingement for bioaerosol sampling across a range of environmental conditions. We also investigated the effect of sampling matrices, sample concentration strategies and sampling duration on D

SUBMITTER: Ferguson RMW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6850074 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature