Prevalence of allergenic pollen grains in the aerosol of the city of Calcutta, India: A two year study

Aerobiologia

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 151-164

  Mandal, Jyotshna ^a   Chakraborty, Pampa ^a   Roy, Indrani ^a   Chatterjee, Soma ^a   Gupta Bhattacharya, Swati ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Aerobiology; Calcutta, India; Pollen calendar; Skin prick test; Spearman's rank correlation coefficient; Tropical humid climate

Indexed keywords

POLLEN ANTIGEN;

AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALLERGENICITY; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BETEL NUT; BORASSUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCONUT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPERACEAE; DELONIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PEA; PELTOPHORUM; PHOENIX; POACEAE; POLLEN; POLLEN ALLERGY; POLLEN ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIZATION; SKIN TEST; TREMA; TROPIC CLIMATE; WIND;

ARECA; AZADIRACHTA; BORASSUS; CASUARINA; CYPERACEAE; DELONIX; PELTOPHORUM; POACEAE; TREMA;

EID: 49649118490     PISSN: 03935965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10453-008-9095-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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