Asthma and the Diversity of Fungal Spores in Air

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Pringle, Anne ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASCOSPORE; ASEXUAL SPORE; ASTHMA; BASIDIOSPORE; BIODIVERSITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUNGUS SPORE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPOROGENESIS;

ASTHMA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGI; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84879526317     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003371     Document Type: Article

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