A three-year study of viable airborne fungi in the North Carolina Zoological Park R.J.R. Nabisco Rocky Coast Alcid Exhibit

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 44-53

  Faucette, Tony G ^a   Loomis, Michael ^b   Reininger, Kenneth ^b   Zombeck, Deborah ^b   Stout, Heidi ^b   Porter, Carol ^b   Dykstra, Michael J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina Zoological Park   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcids; Aspergillosis; Aviary air; Cladosporium; Fungal air sampling; Penicillium

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIRD; COLD; FUNGUS; FUNGUS SPORE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; ZOO ANIMAL;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BIRDS; COLD; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FUNGI; HOUSING, ANIMAL; NORTH CAROLINA; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 0033090536     PISSN: 10427260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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