Asthma and the Diversity of Fungal Spores in Air

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The diversity of fungal spores in air is vast ([1,2], Figure 1), but research on asthma focuses on a handful of easily identified, culturable species.Ecologists are developing new tools to probe communities and identify the full complement of fungi in habitats.These tools may enable identification of novel asthma triggers, but scientists involved in public health or medicine rarely interact with mycologists...

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