Seasonal variability of culturable fungal genera in the house dust of inner-city residences

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 780-789

  Cho, Sook Ja ^a   Ramachandran, Gurumurthy ^a   Banerjee, Sudipto ^a   Ryan, Andrew D ^a   Adgate, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungal concentrations; Fungal genera; House dust; Longitudinal study; Repeated measurements; Seasonal variability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITY; CLASSIFICATION; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

CITIES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGI; MINNESOTA; SEASONS;

EID: 58149180928     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620802490267     Document Type: Article

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