Summary
The muscardine-fungi are nor toxic neither pathogen for man and warmblooded animals. Reactions of sensitive persons working with spores of this fungi are not of general but of allergic nature. Against such allergic reactions it is possible to protect by breath protection, dress with long sleeves and gloves.
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Schaerffenberg, B. Untersuchungen über die Wirkung der Insektentötenden PilzeBeauveria bassiana (Bals. Vuill.) undMetarrhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) Sorok. auf Warmblütler. Entomophaga 13, 175–182 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02371788
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