Occurrence of pathogenic fungi in soil of burrows of rats and of other sites in bamboo plantations in India and Nepal

Mycoses

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 507-511

  Gugnani, H C ^a   Paliwal Joshi, A ^a   Rahman, H ^b   Padhye, A A ^c   Singh, T S K ^d   Das, T K ^e   Khanal, B ^f   Bajaj, R ^a   Rao, S ^g   Chukhani, R ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d SIKKIM MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e Defence R D Organization   (India)

^f B P KOIRALA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Nepal)

^g KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^h NEPAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Bamboo plantations; India; Nepal; Penicillium marneffei; Pseudallescheria boydii; Scytalidium hyalinum; Soil; Trichophyton mentagrophytes var. mentagrophytes; Trichosporon asteroides

Indexed keywords

ACREMONIUM; ARTHRODERMA; ARTHRODERMA VANBREUSEGHEMII; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CHRYSOSPORIUM; DERMATOPHYTE; DILUTION; DISEASE CARRIER; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUSARIUM; GEOTRICHUM; INDIA; MICROSPORUM GYPSEUM; MUCOR; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM BOYDII; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOPUS; RHODOTORULA; SCYTALIDIUM HYALINUM; SOIL MICROFLORA; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOSPORON; TRICHOSPORON ASTEROIDES;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; INDIA; MICE; NEPAL; RATS; RODENTIA; SASA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACREMONIUM (ASCOMYCOTA); ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMA GYPSEUM; ARTHRODERMA VANBREUSEGHEMII; ASPERGILLUS; CANNOMYS BADIUS; CHRYSOSPORIUM; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GEOTRICHUM; MUCOR; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PSEUDALLESCHERIA BOYDII; RATTUS; RHIZOPUS; RHODOTORULA (ERYTHROBASIDIUM CLADE); SCYTALIDIUM HYALINUM; TRICHOSPORON (UNCLASSIFIED); TRICHOSPORON ASTEROIDES;

EID: 35348974537     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01402.x     Document Type: Article

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