Exposure to moulds in flats and the prevalence of allergic diseases - Preliminary study

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 13-20

  Gutarowska, Beata ^a   Wiszniewska, Małgorzata ^b   Walusiak, Jolanta ^b   Piotrowska, Małgorzata ^a   Pałczyński, Cezary ^b   Zakowska, Zofia ^a  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Allergy; Moulds; Mycological analysis of buildings

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ACREMONIUM; ADULT; AIR SAMPLING; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ASPERGILLUS; ATOPY; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; BUILDING; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTAMINATION; COUGHING; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GRASS POLLEN; HELMINTHOSPORIUM HALODES; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPHOMYCETES; MALE; MOULD; PENICILLIUM; PRICK TEST; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHINITIS; SELF REPORT; SENSITIZATION; SPIROMETRY; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FUNGI; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SKIN TESTS; SPIROMETRY;

ACREMONIUM (ASCOMYCOTA); ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ASPERGILLUS; ASTIGMATA; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLADOSPORIUM; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DRECHSLERA HALODES; FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES; PENICILLIUM; PYROGLYPHIDAE;

EID: 30944461749     PISSN: 17331331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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