title: Fungicidal Activity: Chemical and Biological Approaches to Plant Protection (Wiley Series in Agrochemicals & Plant Protection)
author: David H. Hutson
description: "This book can be recommended to everybody working or being interested in plant physiology and modern plant protection." <br /> --Journal of Plant Physiology, Vol 156, 2000
zlib_text: TOXIGENIC FUNGI 
  IN THE INDOOR
  ENVIRONMENT
  Carol Y. Rao, Sc.D.
  Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, Field Studies Branch
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  Morgantown, West Virginia
  46.1
  INTRODUCTION
  Intense scientific and public scrutiny has focused on hazards associated with exposure to
  fungi, especially in enclosed environments. Fungi are well known as agents of infection
  (e.g., histoplasmosis, aspergillosis), allergic disease (e.g., asthma, hypersensitivity pneu-
  monitis), and toxicoses (e.g., tremogenicity, aflatoxicoses, ergotism) (Baxter et al. 1981,
  Brown et al. 1998, Burge 1985, Dvorackova 1976, Garrett et al. 1998, Juchet et al. 1998,
  Land et al. 1987, Robertson et al. 1987). Fungi also produce malodorous volatile organic
  compounds that may cause physical irritation (Pasanen et al. 1998, Walinder et al. 1998).
  The fungal cell wall is composed primarily of chitin fibrils embedded in a matrix of �-(1
  → 3)-D-glucans. Glucan exposure may exacerbate the infe