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Molds and Mycotoxins: A Brief Review

It is an uncontested medical and scientific fact that molds and mycotoxins cause diseases in humans. Too often, they are overlooked and not part of clinicians’ differential diagnosis. Both are health hazards—molds produce metabolites such as mycotoxins and solvents, shed antigenic materials such as spores, hyphae, extracellular polysaccharides, and enzymes, which are toxic and cause immunologic responses.