Indoor wet cells harbour melanized agents of cutaneous infection

Medical Mycology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 622-628

  Lian, X ^a,b   De Hoog, G S ^a,c,d  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Bathroom; Black fungi; Indoor environment; Monoaromates; Toluene

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; TOLUENE;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CHAETOTHYRIALES; CLADOSPORIUM; DILUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GERMANY; INCUBATION TIME; MICROFLORA; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; SKIN INFECTION;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CLADOSPORIUM; DERMATOMYCOSES; EXOPHIALA; HOUSING; HUMANS; TOLUENE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CAPNODIALES; CHAETOTHYRIALES; CLADOSPORIUM; EXOPHIALA; FUNGI;

EID: 77952521755     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693780903405774     Document Type: Article

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