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Diversity and movement of indoor Alternaria alternata across the mainland USA.
Fungal genetics and biology : FG & B - 1 Aug 2015
Woudenberg J H C, van der Merwe N A, Jurjević Ž, Groenewald J Z, Crous P W
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Alternaria spp. from sect. Alternaria are frequently associated with hypersensitivity pneumonitis, asthma and allergic fungal rhinitis and sinusitis. Since Alternaria is omnipresent in the outdoor environment, it is thought that the indoor spore concentration is mainly influenced by the outdoor spore concentration. However, few studies have investigated indoor Alternaria isolates, or attempted a phylogeographic...
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