Sewage and community shower drains are environmental reservoirs of Fusarium solani species complex group 1, a human and plant pathogen

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 219-227

  Mehl, H L ^a   Epstein, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; FUSARIUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PLANT DISEASE; SANITATION; SEWAGE; SQUASH; WATER SUPPLY;

CUCURBITA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DRAINAGE, SANITARY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PLANT DISEASES; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

FUSARIUM SOLANI;

EID: 38149062608     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01446.x     Document Type: Article

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