The ecology of the zygomycetes and its impact on environmental exposure

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2009, Pages 2-9

  Richardson, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entomophthoromycosis; Environmental exposure; Mucormycosis; Taxonomy; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE FUNGUS; AMBIENT AIR; BUILDING; DISEASE CARRIER; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS SPORE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAT TOLERANCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION RATE; MUCORMYCOSIS; NATURAL DISASTER; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHINOSINUSITIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPORANGIOSPORE; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZYGOMYCETES;

ANIMALIA; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MUCORACEAE; MUCORALES; ZYGOMYCETES;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGI; HUMANS; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

EID: 70349978814     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02972.x     Document Type: Review

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