Indoor Mold and Infectious Disease:
A Comprehensive Review of the Literature

The literature review is a specific type of medical and scientific literature that can be very helpful to both scientist and non-scientist trying to keep up with current knowledge in a particular field. The literature review pulls together information that has been published across a number of years and through different media. It is an account of what has been published on a particular topic, conducted by scholars and researchers in the field, and typically sent through the peer-review process like any other medical or scientific article.

An important concept to understand is that the literature review includes …