Viegas, Carla

Environmental Mycology in Public Health / - Elsevier, 2015.

Part I: Fungal Specificities in Environmental Mycology
Section I: General Fungal Characteristics

Chapter 1 - Cellular Constitution, Water and Nutritional Needs, and Secondary Metabolites
Robert A. Samson
Pages 5-15

Chapter 2 - Dispersion Forms
Carla Viegas and João Brandão
Pages 17-23



Section II: Outline of Fungal Pathologies

Chapter 3 - Fungal Infections
Cristina Veríssimo
Pages 27-34

Chapter 4 - Allergic Response to Fungal Exposure
Inês Andrade Mota and Luís Miguel Borrego
Pages 35-43

Chapter 5 - Mycotoxicoses
Maja Peraica
Pages 45-49



Section III

Chapter 6 - Risk Groups for Acquiring Fungal Infections
Guillermo Quindós-Andrés
Pages 53-59



Part II: Environmental Mycology in Public Health
Section I

Chapter 7 - Pathways and Routes of Natural Exposure to Fungal Infection
Karl V. Clemons and Malcolm D. Richardson
Pages 65-76



Section II: Occupational Settings

Chapter 8 - Highly Contaminated Workplaces
Anne Oppliger and Philippe Duquenne
Pages 79-105

Chapter 9 - Fungi in Low-contamination Occupational Environments
Aino Nevalainen and Anne Hyvärinen
Pages 107-125


Section III: Nonoccupational Exposure

Chapter 10 - Domestic Environment: Indoor Mycobiota As a Public Health Risk Factor
Elena Piecková
Pages 129-146


Chapter 11 - Urban Environment: Fungal Specificities: Nonoccupational Exposure and Urban Environment
Rosely Maria Zancopé Oliveira, Rodrigo de Almeida Paes and Ferry Hagen
Pages 147-155


Chapter 12 - Urban Settings: Fungi in Archives: A Double Concern
Ana Catarina Pinheiro
Pages 157-166


Chapter 13 - Recreational Environment: Pathogenic Fungi in Public Places, Information Gaps in Assessing Public Health Risk
Helena Solo-Gabriele, João Brandão, ... Alesia Ferguson
Pages 167-192


Chapter 14 - Hospital Environment
Raquel Sabino
Pages 193-210


Section IV

Chapter 15 - Fungal Disease Outbreaks and Natural Disasters
Kaitlin Benedict and Mary E. Brandt
Pages 213-219


Part III: Fungi and Metabolites

Chapter 16 - Dietary Exposure Assessment of European Population to Mycotoxins: A Review
Carlo Brera, Francesca Debegnach, ... Barbara De Santis
Pages 223-259


Chapter 17 - Mycotoxins as Food Carcinogens
Ariane Vettorazzi and Adela López de Cerain
Pages 261-298


Chapter 18 - Occurrence of Mycotoxins in Indoor Environments
Martin Täubel and Anne Hyvärinen
Pages 299-323


Chapter 19 - Occupational Exposure to Mycotoxins and Preventive Measures
Stefan Mayer
Pages 325-341


Chapter 20 - Mycotoxins: Genotoxicity Studies and Methodologies
Carina Ladeira
Pages 343-361


Chapter 21 - Mycotoxin Analytical Methods
Magdalena Twarużek, Anna Błajet-Kosicka, ... Jan Grajewski
Pages 363-386



Chapter 22 - Indoor Microbial Volatile Organic Compound (MVOC) Levels and Associations with Respiratory Health, Sick Building Syndrome (SBS), and Allergy
Xi Fu
Pages 387-395


Part IV: Methods in Environmental Mycology
Section I: Environmental Sampling

Chapter 23 - Air, Surface and Water Sampling
Ana Catarina Pinheiro and Carla Viegas
Pages 401-408


Section II

Chapter 24 - Sand and Soil Sampling
João Brandão and Valerie J. Harwood
Pages 411-413


Chapter 25 - Processing Methodologies
Carla Viegas and Ana Catarina Pinheiro
Pages 415-419


Chapter 26 - Molecular Approaches to Detect and Identify Fungal Agents in Various Environmental Settings
Raquel Sabino and Ana Catarina Pinheiro
Pages 421-428



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