Description |
1 online resource |
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"" |
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""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"" |
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""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"" |
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""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
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Fungi -- Risk assessment
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Myxomycetes -- Risk assessment
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Microbiology.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Viegas, Carla, editor
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Pinheiro, Ana Catarina, editor
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Sabino, Raquel, editor
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Viegas, Susana, editor
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Brandão, João, editor
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Veríssimo, Cristina, editor
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LC no. |
2015937293 |
ISBN |
9780124115354 |
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0124115357 |
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