The composition and concentration of airborne fungal flora near the busy streets in Vilnius City

There is considerable concern in environmental health circles about chemical and physical contaminants being emitted by the road transport. However, nobody have paid attention to the fact that transport also could contribute to the microbial air pollution. Vehicle movement creates local turbulence w...

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Published in:Journal of aerosol science 1997-09, Vol.28 (suppl. 1), p.S669-S670
Main Authors: Juozaitis, A, Lugauskas, A, Sveistyte, L
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:There is considerable concern in environmental health circles about chemical and physical contaminants being emitted by the road transport. However, nobody have paid attention to the fact that transport also could contribute to the microbial air pollution. Vehicle movement creates local turbulence which promotes aerosolization of fungal spores from surrounding buildings, trees, and soil. Therefore, concentrations of fungal spores can be considerably increased near to the busy streets. These particles in fact play a very important role in triggering allergies, asthmatic symptoms, skin and systemic mycoses and they may at times be fatal as in the case of invasive aspergillosis which easily develops in immunodepressed host. The aim of this paper was to estimate airborne fungal spore composition, concentrations, and their seasonal variation near to the busy streets in Vilnius City.
ISSN:0021-8502
DOI:10.1016/S0021-8502(97)85334-7