Indoor airborne mold spores in newly built dwellings

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 157-161

  Saijo, Yasuaki ^a   Sata, Fumihiro ^a   Mizuno, Shintaro ^b   Yamaguchi, Keiji ^c   Sunagawa, Hiroyuki ^c   Kishi, Reiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKUSHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cladosporium; Mold; Sick building syndrome; Ulocladium

Indexed keywords

AGAR; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; CLADOSPORIUM HERBARUM; CLADOSPORIUM MACROCARPUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS SPORE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOULD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; SYMPTOM;

CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; CLADOSPORIUM MACROCARPUM; DAVIDIELLA TASSIANA; FUNGI; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ULOCLADIUM;

EID: 21044445827     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.10.157     Document Type: Article

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