Incidence of allergenically significant fungal aerosol in a rural bakery of West Bengal, India

Mycopathologia

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-45

  Adhikari, A ^a   Sen, M M ^a   Gupta Bhattacharya, S ^a   Chanda, S ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Aerobiology; Allergy; Bakery; Bio aerosol; Fungal spore

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

ARTICLE; BREAD; DEUTEROMYCETES; FLOUR; FOOD INDUSTRY; FUNGUS SPORE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIA; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; SKIN TEST; TEMPERATURE;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALLERGENS; BREAD; FLOUR; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INDIA; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; SKIN TESTS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TEMPERATURE;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CITRINUM;

EID: 0034483037     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007171420410     Document Type: Article

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