Energy-powered spore-launching strategy is an evolved feature of many fungal species, facilitating dispersal into the surrounding environment, thereby contributing to reproductive success and completing their life cycle. With a focus on the underlyin...
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Puerto Ricans experience among the highest asthma morbidity in the United States, and ambient fungal spores are abundant tropical aeroallergens. This ecological time-series study asked whether associations between ambient fungal spores and recorded a...
Airborne fungi can threaten both cultural heritage materials and indoor air quality, even under temperature and relative humidity conditions not commonly associated with fungal proliferation. This study evaluated culturable airborne fungi in two muse...
Aspergillus species may be found in soil, decaying matter, and on or within plants. Some species are pathogens of humans, other animals, or plants, or cause food spoilage. Invasive aspergillosis affects three million people, mostly immunocompromised...
Plants are the dominant biological interface with the atmosphere, maintaining continuous physical and chemical interactions with the air. However, the botanical dimension of aerobiology, particularly the diversity of plant-derived aerosols and their...
Tea plantations of the Northeastern Himalayan region of India represent major tea-producing landscapes and support a large workforce. Their warm, humid climate, dense vegetation, and intensive processing activities generate diverse bioaerosols, inclu...
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Background/Objectives: Schools are recognised sites of exposure to respiratory viruses for students and staff, representing a recognised public health concern. Environmental air sampling has been developed as a non-invasive surveillance approach that...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the microbiological profile and indoor air quality in hospital settings through an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence published between 2020 and 2026, quantifying the impact of physical...
Climate change has an increasing influence on the composition, abundance, and distribution of bioaerosols in the atmosphere. Bioaerosols, which include airborne bacteria, fungi, viruses, pollen, and microbial fragments, represent an important compone...
Airborne microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) are increasingly reported in indoor, outdoor, and occupational air, but their aerobiological significance remains incompletely defined. This narrative review proposes the aeroplastic exposome as a cautio...
Pollen data obtained from aerobiological monitoring are utilized in various fields of application but require statistical processing. In this study, airborne pollen data from the Rome aerobiological monitoring stations (San Pietro Hospital and Tor Ve...
A prism-coupled surface plasmon resonance (SPR) platform was assessed for detecting dilute acetone in liquid samples representative of condensed exhaled breath. The study combines transfer-matrix Fresnel calculations with wavelength-interrogated expe...
Aerobiology, the science that studies atmospheric biological particles (including pollen, fungal spores, bacteria, and viruses), has undergone a profound transformation from a descriptive, observational discipline into a predictive, data-driven field...
Spinacia oleracea L. cultivation in South Asia is severely compromised by leaf spot disease caused by fungal plant pathogens, resulting in significant yield and quality losses. In this study, we report the first molecularly confirmed case of an Alter...
The study of airborne pollen and spores in regions, communities, and campuses has gained importance in Nigeria in recent times. Aerospora sampling was carried out from November 2012 to February 2013 on the University of Ibadan campus Watch Tower. The...
Exposure to airborne pollen allergens is a major trigger of respiratory allergy, whose prevalence continues to rise throughout Europe. In southern Portugal, the Mediterranean climate and extensive vegetation diversity promote high pollen loads, parti...
Aeropalynology, the monitoring and interpretation of airborne pollen, has become increasingly relevant in Latin America as allergic rhinitis and asthma rise alongside rapid urbanization, land-use change, and climate variability. Yet the region’...
This study estimates the association between respiratory outcomes among employees of a secondary aluminum plant and airborne pollutants. Additionally, it looks into the relationship between pulmonary dysfunction in workers and X-Ray repair cross-comp...
Understanding the dynamics of atmospheric ions, the carriers of electrons and ions in the global electric circuit (GEC), is necessary to fully understand Earth’s atmospheric electricity. Because atmospheric ions are too small to be influenced by grav...
The escalating threats of zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), climate change, and environmental degradation have intensified the need for a unified health approach. One Health—integrating human, animal, and environmental health&m...
Staphylococcus aureus is a common opportunistic pathogen found in various environments, with the potential for rapid spread, especially in densely populated indoor settings. Integrating traditional microbiological monitoring with molecular techniques...
Aeromycoflora present in the library environment is known to play a significant role in triggering allergies and contributing to the deterioration of both cellulosic and non-cellulosic materials within the intramural setting of the Midnapore College...
Allergic rhinitis and asthma remain major public-health challenges, with airborne pollen serving as a key environmental driver. This study investigates the temporal association between aeroallergen exposure, patient healthcare utilization, and allerg...
Airborne magnetic particles (AMPs) are associated with potentially toxic elements, and their size, mineralogy, and concentration can significantly impact both the environment and human health. However, their spatial analysis is often limited by small...
The Danish asbestos executive order defines a range of situations and work processes that require no protective measures, due to an assumption of low dust generation and therefore negligible exposure to asbestos fibers. The purpose of the study was t...
Co-exposure to airborne pollen and fungal spores is increasingly recognized as a contributor to asthma and allergic rhinitis, especially as climatic shifts since 2020 have intensified their seasonal overlap. We systematically searched PubMed and Goog...
International interests in bioaerosols have gained an increased attention to widen the knowledge pool of their identification, distribution, and quantification. Aeromycota signify a complex and diverse group of fungi dispersed through the atmosphere....
Urban environments constitute of spaces in which the majority of humankind reside, work and recreate [...]
In many regions, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle is a key factor in modulating climate processes that can influence seasonal variability in the production and dispersal of allergy-triggering pollen. However, the impacts on allerg...
Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the interplay of human behavior, environmental factors, viral evolution, and public health interventions has resulted in unexpected changes in the timing, intensity, and geography of respiratory virus outbreaks. For...
Bacterial genera present in several areas of a pig farm were analyzed using high-throughput sequencing techniques. Samples were collected from the skin and feces of animals, as well as from surfaces, water, and air. The analyses revealed a strong cor...
We investigated whether a cold front passed on the day when the most cedar pollen was dispersed in each year. When we looked at the 10-year period from 2015 to 2024, and found seven cases in which a cold front passed through the pollen survey area in...
Rural villages function as relatively self-sustained production and living units with well-developed infrastructure. In this setting, investigating the transmission pathways of airborne biological particles, including pathogenic microorganisms, is pi...
Several studies have reported the incidence of fungi and mycotoxins in coffee beans; however, there are few reports related to occupational exposure to these agents at coffee dry milling industries. The aim of this review was to identify and to analy...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of an extremely low-frequency oscillating magnetic field on the enzymatic activities of common airborne Aspergillus sp. strains that were isolated from indoor environments. A D-optimal experimental des...
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are communities which thrive primarily in the upper soil layers of arid and semi-arid environments. Biocrusts produce soil-binding compounds, tolerate extreme conditions, and disperse through both sexual and asexual...
Pollen rain studies are rare in arid and semi-arid regions worldwide. Interpretations related to the dynamics of plant communities and possible paleoclimatic changes in these areas face significant limitations due to this lack of data. The global bio...
Global environmental change is rapidly altering the dynamics of terrestrial vegetation, with consequences for the functioning of the Earth system. Recent studies show that climate change is influencing the phenology and distribution of plants. Airbor...
This paper addresses the study of synoptic-scale meteorological conditions that favor long-range pollen transport in southern South America combining airborne pollen counts, modeled three-dimensional backward trajectories, and synoptic and surface me...
Bioaerosols constitute a crucial component of atmospheric particulate matter, encompassing physical and chemical aerosol properties along with biological characteristics. They can influence global ecosystems, climate change dynamics, and air quality....
The role that aquatic aerosols might play in inter-ecosystem exchanges in freshwater riparian environments has largely been understudied. In these environments, where freshwater streams are used both as drinking water and for treated waste disposal,...
This study aims to investigate the seasonal variation and source identification of fluorescent aerosol particles at the monitoring site of the University of Salento in Lecce, southeastern Italy. Utilizing a wideband integrated bioaerosol sensor (WIBS...
Indoor microclimate conditions and air pollutant concentrations (O3, TVOC, CO, CO2, and particulate matter mass concentrations in six size bins) were measured in the Greek Archaeological Museum of Abdera, which houses priceless works of art from the...
Our study aimed to quantify the pollen trapped by the seeds and relate it with the airborne pollen concentrations. Individual Populus spp. tuft-like seeds were sampled while suspended twice a day in 2017 and 2018 during the seed dispersal season. The...
About 40% of cedar pollinosis patients living in the Yamagata Prefecture showed pollinosis symptoms before the first day of the pollen season, which was determined by Durham samplers, the standard sampler for pollen information in Japan. The amount o...
Although studies focusing on the physicochemical properties of aerosols/clouds have not been performed extensively, even less attention has been given to hailstones and their biological composition. Here, we present the results of the physical and mi...
UV irradiation has shown potential in reducing bacterial and viral loadings. This is a pilot study aimed at investigating the antimicrobial effect of a novel pulsed UVA and UVC technology on bacteria and human coronavirus 229E. The selection of these...
Avian influenza virus (AIV) can have a serious impact on both human and animal health. In this study, we used an environmentally controlled chamber and a hemagglutination assay (HA) to evaluate the ability of membrane-less electrolyzed water (MLEW) s...
