Unexpected pollinosis or insufficient pollen records? Importance of regional monitoring
| Autor: | Manuel Munuera Giner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Mediterranean climate
medicine.medical_specialty Pollination Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Flowers medicine.disease_cause Aerobiology Pollen Hypersensitivity medicine Humans biology Ecology Incidence Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results food and beverages General Medicine biology.organism_classification Pollution Geography Artemisia Spain Epidemiological Monitoring Flowering plant Seasons High incidence Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 12:187-192 |
| ISSN: | 1369-1619 0960-3123 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09603120220129364 |
| Popis: | Particular climates and the occurrence of endemic flowering plant species potentially leads to special aerobiological situations through the word. After a 6-year study carried out in Murcia (SE Spain) some particularities were detected in the 'aerobiological behaviour' of airborne pollen. Among them, Artemisia was shown to be the most original, particularly because of its unique winter pollination period, not reported elsewhere outside of SE Spain, and due to the occurrence of endemic Artemisia species. This state of affairs is possibly responsible of the high incidence of Artemisia in Murcia (23.5%; European mean, 10%) and the high number of long-season pollinosis sufferers (15%). These results stress the importance of regional and local aerobiological studies for interpreting and predicting allergenic diseases in Mediterranean areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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