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Environment

Air-sampled Filter Analysis for Endotoxins and DNA Content

Naama Lang-Yona^1,2, Yinon Mazar¹, Michal Pardo¹, Yinon Rudich¹

¹Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, ²Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute

Two complementary analyses of atmospheric biological particles from air sampled filters are described herein: the extraction and detection of endotoxin, and of DNA.