Preliminary survey of indoor and outdoor airborne microfungi at coastal buildings in Egypt

Aerobiologia

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 197-210

  El Morsy, El Sayed M ^a  

^a DAMIETTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Airborne viable fungi; Egypt; Ergosterol content; New Damietta; Total spore count

Indexed keywords

ERGOSTEROL;

AEROSOL; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALTERNARIA; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLADOSPORIUM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEUTEROMYCETES; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EGYPT; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS SPORE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMIDITY; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEASHORE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SYMPTOM; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; YEAST;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

EID: 33748743945     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-006-9032-0     Document Type: Article

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