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

By D. Griffin. Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2007

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Detailed identification of desert-originated bacteria carried by Asian dust storms to Japan (2007, background): “pathogenic microbes also carried with the desert dust may cause adverse effects to animals, plants, and humans (Schlesinger et al. 1990; Young et al. 1991; Uematsu et al. 1992; Griffin et al. 2002; Kwon et al. 2002; Griffin and Kellogg 2004; Griffin 2007 ).”
• Stratospheric microbiology at 20 km over the Pacific Ocean (2010, methodology): “The abundance of cells recovered in this study (12 out of 27 possible flight hardware sites) was surprising based on the previously described dilution effect on cells in the stratosphere ( Griffin 2007 ).”
• Bacterial Extracellular Enzymatic Activity in Globally Changing Aquatic Ecosystems (2010, background): “However, the input of metals such as arsenic and copper, associated with desert dust [117] might also have an inhibitory effect on some extracellular enzymes.”
• Atmosphere: A Source of Pathogenic or Beneficial Microbes? (2012, background): “In addition to inorganic particles, the clouds of desert dust can carry a sizable inoculum of microorganisms and microbiological materials [13,37].”
• Impact of climate change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation. (2016, background): “Studies further suggested that the viruses of infectious diseases be transported across ocean by dust particles (Chung and Sobsey, 1993; Cox, 1995; Griffin, 2007), whichmay facilitate the transmission of viruses between distant”
• Bacterial abundance and viability in long-range transported dust (2012, background): “The long-range dispersal of airborne bacteria have been often concerned for their possible effects on public health and downwind ecosystems (Griffin, 2007; Hervàs et al., 2009; Ichinose et al., 2008; Kellogg and Griffin, 2006; Yukimura et al., 2009).”
• Phylogenetic diversity and vertical distribution of a halobacterial community in the atmosphere of an Asian dust (KOSA) source region, Dunhuang City (2008, background): “…bacteria, fungi, and pollen, as well as plant and animal debris (Jones and Harrison 2004) are reported to negatively influence plant and animal health and cause diseases, such as asthma (due to allergens) or other illnesses (Griffin 2007; Griffin and Kellogg 2004; Kellogg and Griffin 2006).”