Detection of fungi spectrum in industrial and home bakeries and determinated fungal allergy with skin prick test

Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 23, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 79-85

  Orman, Ayşe ^a   Fiçici, Safiye Elif ^a   Ay, Alaaddin ^a   Ellidokuz, Hülya ^a   Sivaci, Remziye Gül ^a   Konuk, Muhsin ^a  

^a AFYON KOCATEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGENICITY; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CLADOSPORIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PENICILLIUM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRICK TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRICHOPHYTON;

ADULT; ALTERNARIA; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLUS; CLADOSPORIUM; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FUSARIUM; GEOTRICHUM; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MUCOR; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PENICILLIUM; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; SEASONS; SKIN TESTS; TRICHOPHYTON; TURKEY;

EID: 27544450703     PISSN: 0125877X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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