Pathogenic fungi in the work environment of organic and conventional farmers

Postepy Dermatologii i Alergologii

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 256-262

  Zukiewicz Sobczak, Wioletta ^a   Cholewa, Grazyna ^a   Krasowska, Ewelina ^a   Zwoliński, Jacek ^a   Sobczak, Paweł ^b   Zawiślak, Kazimierz ^b   Chmielewska Badora, Jolanta ^a   Pia̧tek, Jacek ^a   Wojtyła, Andrzej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Conventional crops; Molds; Organic farming

Indexed keywords

MYCOTOXIN;

ABSIDIA; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUREOBASIDIUM; CLADOSPORIUM; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GRAIN DUST; HEALTH HAZARD; HYGIENE; MOULD; MYCOTOXICOSIS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; ORGANIC FARMING; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM; RHIZOPUS; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM; TRICHOPHYTON; WORK ENVIRONMENT; YEAST;

EID: 84866786233     PISSN: 1642395X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/pdia.2012.30463     Document Type: Article

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