Recovery of melanized yeasts from Eastern Mediterranean beach sand associated with the prevailing geochemical and marine flora patterns

Medical Mycology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 413-415

  Efstratiou, Maria A ^a   Velegraki, Aristea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aureobasidium pullulans; Beach sand; Exophiala dermatitidis

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ARTICLE; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GREECE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SAND; SEASHORE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS;

AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; CHAETOTHYRIALES; DOTHIDEALES; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS;

EID: 76649121526     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693780902814294     Document Type: Article

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