Effect of plasterboard composition on Stachybotrys chartarum growth and biological activity of spores

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3751-3757

  Murtoniemi, Timo ^a   Nevalainen, Aino ^a   Hirvonen, Maija Riitta ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME INHIBITION;

PLASTERBOARDS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOCIDE; CALCIUM SULFATE; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; STARCH; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BUILDING MATERIAL; CYTOTOXICITY; GROWTH RATE; MATERIALS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPOROGENESIS; STACHYBOTRYS; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CALCIUM SULFATE; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ERGOSTEROL; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMIDITY; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NITRIC OXIDE; SPORES, FUNGAL; STACHYBOTRYS; STARCH; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ANIMALIA; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

EID: 0038493642     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.7.3751-3757.2003     Document Type: Article

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