Vegetation: A source of air fungal bio-contaminant

Aerobiologia

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-61

  Awad, Abdel Hameed A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Airborne fungi; Chamomile; Comparison; Rural and urban areas; Vegetable; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; RAIN;

ACREMONIUM; AIR; AIR POLLUTION; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; AUREOBASIDIUM; BEAUVERIA; BOTRYTIS; CHALARA; CHARTARUM; CHLAMYDOMYCES; CLADOSPORIUM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CURVULARIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EGYPT; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM; GEOTRICHUM; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMIDITY; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OIDIODENDRON; PENICILLIUM; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SCOPULARIOPSIS; SEDIMENTATION; SPICARIA; STACHYBOTRYS; TEMPERATURE; THAMNIDIUM; TRICHOTHECIUM; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; WEATHER;

ACREMONIUM (ASCOMYCOTA); ALTERNARIA; ANTHEMIS; ASPERGILLUS; AUREOBASIDIUM; BEAUVERIA; BOTRYTIS; CHALARA; CLADOSPORIUM; CURVULARIA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GEOTRICHUM; OIDIODENDRON; PENICILLIUM; SCOPULARIOPSIS; SPICARIA; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM; THAMNIDIUM; TORULA; TRICHOTHECIUM (ASCOMYCOTA);

EID: 22744437661     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-004-5878-1     Document Type: Article

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