Indoor fungal contamination of moisture-damaged and allergic patient housing analysed using real-time PCR

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 260-266

  Bellanger, A P ^a,b   Reboux, G ^a,b   Roussel, S ^a,b   Grenouillet, F ^a,b   Didier Scherer, E ^a   Dalphin, J C ^a,b   Millon, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b université Bourgogne Franche Comté   (France)

Author keywords

Aspergillus versicolor; Cladosporium sphaerospermum; Indoor mould; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; GRAPH THEORY; HOUSING; MOISTURE CONTROL; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ALLERGIC PATIENTS; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ASPERGILLUS VERSICOLOR; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM SPHAEROSPERMUM; DIRECT CALCULATION; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL SPECIES; INDOOR MOULD; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; QUANTITATIVE LEVEL; REAL-TIME PCR; SOCIAL SERVICE; STANDARD CURVES; SURFACE SAMPLE; SURFACE UNITS;

MOLDS;

FUNGAL DNA;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; MOISTURE CONTENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME;

AIR SAMPLING; ALLERGY; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ASPERGILLUS VERSICOLOR; CLADOSPORIUM SPHAEROSPERMUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

EID: 68249135087     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2009.02653.x     Document Type: Article

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