Ten-year surveillance of fungal contamination of food within a protected haematological unit

Mycoses

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 421-425

  Brenier Pinchart, M P ^a   Faure, O ^a   Garban, F ^a   Fricker Hidalgo, H ^a   Mallaret, M R ^a   Trens, A ^a   Lebeau, B ^a   Pelloux, H ^a   Grillot, R ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Filamentous fungi; Food; Haematological unit

Indexed keywords

VINEGAR; YOGHURT;

ACREMONIUM; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CHEESE; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORN; DIET RESTRICTION; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD PROCESSING; FRUIT; FRUIT JUICE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GEOTRICHUM; HEMATOLOGY; HONEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MEAT; MILK; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOMYCETES;

ASPERGILLUS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GERMANY; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 33747060720     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2006.01257.x     Document Type: Article

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