Allergenic fungal spore records (15 years) and relationship with meteorological parameters in Thessaloniki, Greece

Allergy and Clinical Immunology International

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 52-59

  Gioulekas, Dimitrios ^a   Damialis, Athanasios ^a   Mpalafoutis, Christos ^a   Papakosta, Despoina ^a   Giouleka, Paschalina ^a   Patakas, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Asthma; Fungal spores; Greece; Meteorological parameters; Respiratory allergy

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALLERGENICITY; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; BOTRYTIS; CLADOSPORIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DATA BASE; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM; GREECE; HUMIDITY; HYPHOMYCETES; METEOROLOGY; NONHUMAN; RECORDING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; USTILAGO; WIND;

EID: 1642483056     PISSN: 08381925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0838-1925.16.2.52     Document Type: Article

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