Fungi and the indoor environment: Their impact on human health

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-30

  Cooley, J D ^a   Wong, W C ^a   Jumper, C A ^b   Straus, D C ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOTOXIN;

ALTERNARIA; CHRYSOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MOULD; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PHENOMENOLOGY; POWDERY MILDEW; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALTERNARIA; CHRYSOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM; ERYSIPHALES; FUNGI; INSECTA; PENICILLIUM; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

EID: 4444359876     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2164(04)55001-3     Document Type: Article

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