Abstract
The characters of modern buildings such as higher airtightness, frequent usage of artificial materials and artificial air conditionings provide suitable conditions for flourishing of microorganisms, especially fungi. Indoor fungi could produce unacceptable musty smells and cause structural damage of building. But the more serious effects are the threatening on human health. They could provoke several allergic diseases, sick building syndrome, organic dust toxic syndrome, and could be the important causative agents of infectious diseases in the immunocompromized host. This paper review the characters, physiology, epidemiology and isolation techniques of the indoor fungi to provide the basic ideas to control the indoor fungi.
Keywords
Fungi Immunocompromized host Indoor environment
KJMM
1998 December;3(2):73-80(8). Epub 2016 February 24
Copyright © 1998 by Korean Journal of Medical Mycology
Language
Korean/English
Author
Hun Jun Lee; Hygiene & Microbiological Test and Research Center, Tokyo, Japan
Corresponding
Hun Jun Lee, Hygiene & Microbiological Test and Research Center, 9-4 7-Chome, Asakusa Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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