Toxic and other non-IgE mediated effects of fungal exposures

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 438-446

  Nordness, Mark E ^a   Zacharisen, Michael C ^a   Fink, Jordan N ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; ALKALOID; ALLERGEN; AMPHOTERICIN B; CLOTRIMAZOLE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPIAZONIC ACID; ERGOMETRINE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; FUMONISIN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; GRISEOFULVIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; MYCOTOXIN; OCHRATOXIN; PREDNISONE; SLAFRAMINE; T 2 TOXIN; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNGAL BIOMASS; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOME; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MOULD; MUCOCUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS; MYCOSIS; MYCOTOXICOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; REVIEW; SCHOOL; SENSITIZATION; SPECIES; STACHYBOTRYS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; FOOD CONTROL; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MYCOSES; MYCOTOXINS;

EID: 0142089721     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-003-0081-y     Document Type: Review

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