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A survey of tide-washed coastal areas of southern California for fungi potentially pathogenic to man

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  1. Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, The Center for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles 24, California, U.S.A.

    Nina Dabrowa M.A. (Predoctoral Trainee in Mycology), Joseph W. Landau M.D. (Assistant Research Dermatologist), Victor D. Newcomer M.D. (Professor of Medicine (Dermatology) & Orda A. Plunkett Ph. D. (Professor of Botany)

  2. Medical Service, Veterans' Administration Service, General Medical and Surgical Hospital, Los Angeles 25, California, U.S.A.

    Nina Dabrowa M.A. (Predoctoral Trainee in Mycology), Joseph W. Landau M.D. (Assistant Research Dermatologist), Victor D. Newcomer M.D. (Professor of Medicine (Dermatology) & Orda A. Plunkett Ph. D. (Professor of Botany)

  3. Department of Botany and Plant Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles 24, California, U.S.A.

    Orda A. Plunkett Ph. D. (Professor of Botany)

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This study was supported in part by USPHS GRANTS A1-01478-07, 5 Tl Al 52-05 and 5Tl-AM-5265-05 and the Dermatologic Research Foundation of California, Inc.

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Dabrowa, N., Landau, J.W., Newcomer, V.D. et al. A survey of tide-washed coastal areas of southern California for fungi potentially pathogenic to man. Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata 24, 137–150 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02075556

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