gaseous pollutants, bioburden and particle-bound chemical constituents

Funding Information: The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support by national funds FCT/MCTES to CESAM (UID Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e Mar (CESAM) + LA/P/0094/2020), to SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2020), to CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020), to CeDRI (UIDB/05757/2020 and UIDP/05757/2020) and also financial support to PhD fellow students Leonardo Furst (SFRH/BD/08461/2020) and Yago Cipoli (SFRH/BD/04992/2021). H&TRC authors gratefully acknowledge the FCT/MCTES national support through the UIDB/05608/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/05608/2020) and UIDP/05608/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/05608/2020. This study was also supported by FCT through the project \u201CAir Pollution in an African Megacity: Source Apportionment and Health Implications\u201D (APAM, DOI: 10.54499/2022.04240.PTDC). Funding Information: The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support by national funds FCT/MCTES to CESAM ( UIDP/50017/2020 , UIDB/50017/2020 and LAP/0094/2020 ), to SusTEC ( LA/P/0007/2020 ), to CIMO ( UIDB/00690/2020 ), to CeDRI ( UIDB/05757/2020 and UIDP/05757/2020 ) and also financial support to PhD fellow students Leonardo Furst ( SFRH/BD/08461/2020 ) and Yago Cipoli ( SFRH/BD/04992/2021 ). The authors would like to express their gratitude towards Bianca Gomes, Renata Cervantes, and Pedro Pena from the Health & Technology Research Center (H&TRC - ESTeSL) for their valuable contributions to the microorganism analysis in this work. Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Authors