Dishwashers are a major source of human opportunistic yeast-like fungi in indoor environments in Mersin, Turkey

Medical Mycology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 493-498

  Döǧen, Aylin ^a   Kaplan, Engin ^b   Öksüz, Zehra ^a   Serin, Mehmet Sami ^a   Ilkit, MacIt ^c   De Hoog, G Sybren ^d,e  

^a Faculty of Pharmacy   (Turkey)

^b MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Chaetothyriales; Exophiala dermatitidis; Exophiala phaeomuriformis; Extremophile; Filamentous fungi

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BATH; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; DISHWASHER; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; EXOPHIALA PHAEOMURIFORMIS; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENERAL DEVICE; GENOTYPE; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INOCULATION; MAGNUSIOMYCES CAPITATUS; MALT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; REFRIGERATOR; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WASHING MACHINE; YEAST;

CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CHAETOTHYRIALES; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; FUNGI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 84879983096     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2012.738313     Document Type: Article

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