caa a22 4500 475775201 CHVBK 20180406123629.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1007171420410 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1007171420410 Incidence of allergenically significant fungal aerosol in a rural bakery of West Bengal, India [Elektronische Daten] [Atin Adhikari, Moon Sen, Swati Gupta-Bhattacharya, Sunirmal Chanda] The frequency of fungal spores in the air of three different sections of a rural bakery was analyzed using a Burkard personal slide sampler and Andersen two stage viable sampler. In average concentration of spores (No./m3) was 228-26770/m3 and concentration of viable colony forming units (CFU/m3) was 65-2061 CFU/m3. Dominant fungus species both culturable and nonculturable, were species of Aspergillus and Penicillium, Cladosporiumsp., Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Cladosporium cladosporioides, Penicillium citrinum and Alternaria alternata. Seasonal variations in the spore concentrations were clearly observed in case of some fungi. Total culturable mould concentration of different bakery sections sometimes exceeded the acceptable limit for a healthy indoor environment. Antigenic extracts prepared from some dominant culturable fungi showed high level of allergenicity in skin prick tests indicating that they could be responsible for allergic respiratory dysfunction of bakery workers. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 bio-aerosol nationallicence fungal spore nationallicence bakery nationallicence allergy nationallicence aerobiology nationallicence Adhikari Atin Division of Palynology and Environmental Biology, Department of Botany, Bose Institute, 700 009, Calcutta, India aut Sen Moon Division of Palynology and Environmental Biology, Department of Botany, Bose Institute, 700 009, Calcutta, India aut Gupta-Bhattacharya Swati Division of Palynology and Environmental Biology, Department of Botany, Bose Institute, 700 009, Calcutta, India aut Chanda Sunirmal Division of Palynology and Environmental Biology, Department of Botany, Bose Institute, 700 009, Calcutta, India aut Mycopathologia Kluwer Academic Publishers 149/1(2000-08-01), 35-45 0301-486X 149:1<35 2000 149 11046 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007171420410 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007171420410 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Adhikari Atin Division of Palynology and Environmental Biology, Department of Botany, Bose Institute, 700 009, Calcutta, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sen Moon Division of Palynology and Environmental Biology, Department of Botany, Bose Institute, 700 009, Calcutta, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gupta-Bhattacharya Swati Division of Palynology and Environmental Biology, Department of Botany, Bose Institute, 700 009, Calcutta, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chanda Sunirmal Division of Palynology and Environmental Biology, Department of Botany, Bose Institute, 700 009, Calcutta, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Mycopathologia Kluwer Academic Publishers 149/1(2000-08-01), 35-45 0301-486X 149:1<35 2000 149 11046 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer