Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores: A Natural History of Toxic Mold

Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores: A Natural History of Toxic Mold

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-192

  Money, Nicholas P ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black mold; Courtroom; Immune system; Microbes; Stachybotrys chartarum; Toxins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877294544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195172270.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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