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Environmental mycology in public health : fungi and mycotoxins risk assessment and management /

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 building...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Viegas, Carla (Editor ), Pinheiro, Ana Catarina (Editor ), Sabino, Raquel (Editor ), Viegas, Susana (Editor ), Brand�ao, Jo�ao (Editor ), Ver�issimo, Cristina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Elsevier : Academic Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""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""