Knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding infectious diseases are key elements that ensure practitioners' health and safety. It is important to carry out such a survey in hotels. This study aims to determine the levels of knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding infectious diseases among...

Objective: 2015, we provided the evidence for improving the prevention and control measures. Methods: The food poisoning cases were analyzed with the descriptive epidemiological method in Hainan Province, 2014-2015. Results: A total of 94 food poisoning incidents were reported in Hainan Province,...

Wild edible mushrooms are one of the main non-wood forest products available in the Andean Patagonian region, being potential productive resources through their use and added value in the local gastronomic sector, with qualities to be considered as products with Patagonian identity. They could be...

Background: The pre-industrial diet of the Swedish peasantry did not include mushrooms. In the 1830s, some academic mycologists started information campaigns to teach people about edible mushrooms. This propaganda met with sturdy resistance from rural people. Even at the beginning of the last...

Edible wild mushroom picking is becoming an important source of income in rural areas. The wide range of activities which add value to mycological production (initial sale, transformation, marketing, etc.) include those related to tourism which can attract visitors to mushroom producing areas,...

The Timberline ecotones and their nearby areas in Central Himalayas remain under pressure due to the resource use by people, often resulting in ecosystem degradation. In the study Chopta-Tungnath treeline ecotone area, livelihood options for local communities are limited, and largely based on...

In this study, different types of indoor environments (primary school, kindergarten, cafeteria, restaurant, dormitory, dwelling, office, sport salon, library, classroom, and laboratory) and their outdoor environments were investigated in terms of bioaerosol contamination. A total of 120...

The aim of the study was to investigate knowledge and use of wild food plants and fungi in Han (i.e. Chinese) nationality villages in central China, including famine plants used in the respondents' childhood. A valley adjacent to the extremely species-rich temperate forest vegetation of the Taibai...

One major deficiency in linking environmental exposure to health effects is the current lack of data on environmental exposure. Therefore, to address this issue, the present study measured the bacterial and fungal concentrations in the indoor and outdoor air from two types of recreation facility...

Swimming pools are known to be a source of infection in swimmers. In this paper the results of a twelve-year sanitary survey are presented. The survey presented here focuses on swimming pools in the region of Attica, Greece. The inspected swimming pools belonged to sports clubs, municipalities,...