Airborne fungi in industrial environments - Potential agents of respiratory diseases

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-25

  Lugauskas, Albinas ^a   Krikštaponis, Arunas ^a   Šveistyte, Laima ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Airborne fungi; Feed preparing and storing house; Grain mill; Organic waste recycling facilities; Poultry house; Swinery; Wooden panel producing factory

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; ASTHMA; BOTRYOTRICHUM LONGIBRACHIATUM; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; CLADOSPORIUM HERBARUM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GEOTRICHUM CANDIDUM; GRAIN; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC WASTE; PAECILOMYCES; PAECILOMYCES PUNTONII; PENICILLIUM CLAVIFORME; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM; PENICILLIUM OLIVINOVIRIDAE; PENICILLIUM VIRIDICATUM; PIG FARMING; POULTRY FARMING; RECYCLING; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHIZOPUS NODOSUS; RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; FUNGI; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POULTRY; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; RISK FACTORS; SPORES, FUNGAL; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; ASPERGILLUS RAPERI; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; DAVIDIELLA TASSIANA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; GALACTOMYCES GEOTRICHUM; GEOTRICHUM; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM; PENICILLIUM FELLUTANUM; PENICILLIUM OXALICUM; PENICILLIUM PAXILLI; PENICILLIUM VIRIDICATUM; RHIZOPUS STOLONIFER; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 3042697026     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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