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Metagenomic survey of bacterial diversity in the atmosphere of Mexico City using different sampling methods.
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) - 1 Apr 2018
Serrano-Silva N, Calderón-Ezquerro M C
Abstract excerpt
The identification of airborne bacteria has traditionally been performed by retrieval in culture media, but the bacterial diversity in the air is underestimated using this method because many bacteria are not readily cultured. Advances in DNA sequencing technology have produced a broad knowledge of genomics and metagenomics, which can greatly improve our ability to identify and study the diversity of airborne...
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