The importance of conventional methods: Microscopy and culture

Aspergillosis: From Diagnosis to Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 55-73

  Johnson, Elizabeth M ^a   Borman, Andrew M ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Colonial morphology; Identification; Microscopic morphology; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919679821     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2408-4_4     Document Type: Chapter

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