Production of mycotoxins on artificially and naturally infested building materials

Mycopathologia

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-56

  Nielsen, Kristian Fog ^a,b   Gravesen, S ^b   Nielsen, P A ^b   Andersen, B ^a   Thrane, U ^a   Frisvad, J C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alternariol; Chaetoglobosin; Indoor air; Mycotoxin; Sick building syndrome; Sterigmatocystin

Indexed keywords

MYCOTOXIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BUILDING MATERIAL; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FUNGI; MYCOTOXINS; WATER;

ALTERNARIA; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS USTUS; CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM; FUNGI; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM BREVICOMPACTUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PENICILLIUM POLONICUM; ULOCLADIUM;

EID: 0032743353     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007038211176     Document Type: Article

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