Indoor mould development and dispersal

Medical Mycology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-9

  McGinnis, Michael R ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL ENZYME;

ACREMONIUM; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; ASPERGILLUS; AUREOBASIDIUM; BASIDIOSPORE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CHAETOMIUM; CLADOSPORIUM; CONIDIUM; DETERIORATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGAL LIFE CYCLE STAGE; FUNGAL VIABILITY; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHY; MOULD; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PENICILLIUM; STACHYBOTRYS; TRICHODERMA; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; VIRUS ADSORPTION; WATER ABSORPTION; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ACARI; FUNGI; HEXAPODA;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; FUNGI; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 34249657494     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780600928495     Document Type: Article

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