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Title Environmental mycology in public health : fungi and mycotoxins risk assessment and management / edited by Carla Viegas, Ana Catarina Pinheiro, Raquel Sabino, Susana Viegas, João Brandão, Cristina Veríssimo
Published Amsterdam : Elsevier : Academic Press, [2016]
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Contents ""Front Cover""; ""Environmental Mycology in Public Health""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Part I -- Fungal Specificities in Environmental Mycology""; ""Section I -- General FungalCharacteristics""; ""Chapter 1 -- Cellular Constitution, Water and Nutritional Needs, and Secondary Metabolites""; ""FUNGAL STRUCTURES""; ""GROWTH CONDITIONS""; ""FUNGAL METABOLITES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 2 -- Dispersion Forms""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Section II -- Outline of FungalPathologies""; ""Chapter 3 -- Fungal Infections""; ""SUPERFICIAL FUNGAL INFECTIONS""
""SUBCUTANEOUS INFECTIONS""""INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 4 -- Allergic Response to Fungal Exposure""; ""ALLERGIC DISEASE AND FUNGAL SENSITIZATION""; ""IMMUNE RESPONSE AND HYPERSENSITIVITY TO FUNGAL EXPOSURE""; ""ALLERGIC RHINITIS""; ""ALLERGIC FUNGAL RHINOSINUSITIS""; ""ASTHMA""; ""ALLERGIC BRONCHOPULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS""; ""ATOPIC DERMATITIS""; ""OTHER DISEASES""; ""DIAGNOSIS OF FUNGAL-RELATED ALLERGIC DISEASES""; ""TREATMENT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 5 -- Mycotoxicoses""; ""AFLATOXINS""; ""FUMONISINS""; ""OCHRATOXINS""; ""ZEARALENONE""; ""TRICHOTHECENES""
""PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS""""CHROMOBLASTOMYCOSIS""; ""ENTOMOPHTHOROMYCOSIS""; ""MYCETOMA""; ""SPOROTRICHOSIS""; ""PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS""; ""HYALOHYPHOMYCOSIS""; ""INHALATIONAL MODELS OF INFECTION""; ""MUCOSAL MODELS OF INFECTION""; ""DIRECT INFECTION""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Section II -- Occupational Settings""; ""Chapter 8 -- Highly Contaminated Workplaces""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""FUNGAL AEROSOLS IN ANIMAL CONFINEMENT BUILDINGS""; ""FUNGAL AEROSOLS IN SAWMILLS""; ""FUNGAL AEROSOLS IN WASTE SECTORS""; ""FUNGAL AEROSOLS IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY""
""FUNGAL AEROSOLS DURING PLANT AND GRAIN HANDLING""""CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 9 -- Fungi in Low-contamination Occupational Environments""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""MEASUREMENT ASPECTS""; ""FUNGAL SPECIES IN INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS""; ""GENERAL ASPECTS OF FUNGAL CONTAMINATION""; ""ESSENTIAL SOURCES OF INDOOR FUNGI""; ""ROLE OF VENTILATION IN FUNGAL CONTAMINATION OF INDOOR SPACES""; ""CARPETS""; ""FUNGAL GROWTH DUE TO MOISTURE OR DAMPNESS""; ""GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE DATA FROM LOW-CONTAMINATION ENVIRONMENTS""; ""OFFICES""; ""SCHOOLS AND DAY CARE CENTERS""
Summary Environmental Mycology in Public Health: Fungi and Mycotoxins Risk Assessment and Management provides the most updated information on fungi, an essential element in the survival of our global ecology that can also pose a significant threat to the health of occupants when they are present in buildings. As the exposure to fungi in homes is a significant risk factor for a number of respiratory symptoms, including allergies and hypersensitivity pneumonitis, this book presents information on fungi and their disease agents, important aspects of exposure assessment, and their impacts on health
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 10, 2015)
Subject Mycology -- Health aspects
Fungi -- Risk assessment
Myxomycetes -- Risk assessment
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Microbiology.
Form Electronic book
Author Viegas, Carla, editor
Pinheiro, Ana Catarina, editor
Sabino, Raquel, editor
Viegas, Susana, editor
Brandão, João, editor
Veríssimo, Cristina, editor
LC no. 2015937293
ISBN 9780124115354
0124115357