Atmospheric Movement of Microorganisms in Clouds of Desert Dust and Implications for Human Health

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Clinical Microbiology Reviews

• Publication date

  2007-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1128/CMR.00039-06PMID 17630335PMCID PMC1932751
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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