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BioMed Research International
Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 3194321, 13 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3194321
Review Article

Risks of Mycotoxins from Mycoinsecticides to Humans

Qiongbo Hu,1 Fuxia Li,1 and Yuping Zhang2

1College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
2Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of High Technology for Plant Protection, Plant Protection Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China

Received 6 September 2015; Accepted 7 December 2015

Academic Editor: Daniel Cyr

Copyright © 2016 Qiongbo Hu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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