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Arabitol and mannitol as tracers for the quantification of airborne fungal spores
Heidi Bauer,Magda Claeys,Reinhilde Vermeylen,Elisabeth Schueller,Gert Weinke,Anna Berger,Hans Puxbaum +6 more
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In this article, the authors derived quantitative relationships between the amounts of tracer compounds and the number of spores in the atmosphere for different sites in the area of Vienna and obtained over all average relationships of 1.2-2.4 with a clear site dependence.About:
This article is published in Atmospheric Environment.The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 274 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Arabitol & Bioaerosol.read more
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Primary biological aerosol particles in the atmosphere: a review
Viviane R. Després,J. Alex Huffman,Susannah M. Burrows,Corinna Hoose,Aleksandr S. Safatov,G. A. Buryak,Janine Fröhlich-Nowoisky,W. Elbert,Meinrat O. Andreae,Ulrich Pöschl,Ruprecht Jaenicke +10 more
TL;DR: A review of the current knowledge on major categories of primary biological aerosol particles (PBAP): bacteria and archaea, fungal spores and fragments, pollen, viruses, algae and cyanobacteria, biological crusts and lichens and others like plant or animal fragments and detritus is presented in this article.
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High diversity of fungi in air particulate matter
TL;DR: In this article, the relative abundance and seasonal cycles of various groups of fungi in coarse and fine particulate matter, with more plant pathogens in the coarse fraction and more human pathogens and allergens in the respirable fine particle fraction (< 3 microm).
High Diversity of Fungi in Air Particulate Matter
TL;DR: By DNA analysis, pronounced differences in the relative abundance and seasonal cycles of various groups of fungi in coarse and fine particulate matter are found, with more plant pathogens in the coarse fraction and more human pathogens and allergens in the respirable fine particle fraction.
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Research on aerosol sources and chemical composition: Past, current and emerging issues
TL;DR: In spite of considerable progress in recent years, a quantitative and predictive understanding of atmospheric aerosol sources, chemical composition, transformation processes and environmental effects is still rather limited, and therefore represents a major research challenge in atmospheric science as discussed by the authors.
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Chemical composition of atmospheric aerosols during the 2003 summer intense forest fire period
Casimiro Pio,Michel Legrand,Célia Alves,Tiago S. Oliveira,Joana Afonso,Alexandre Caseiro,Alexandre Caseiro,Hans Puxbaum,A. Sanchez-Ochoa,András Gelencsér +9 more
TL;DR: In Portugal, during summer 2003, unusually large forested areas (>300,000 ha) were destroyed by fire, emitting pollutants to the atmosphere as discussed by the authors, and aerosol samples were collected in the Aveiro region, and analysed for total mass and a set of inorganic and organic compounds, including tracers of biomass burning.
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Abundance of cellular material and proteins in the atmosphere.
TL;DR: It turns out that cellular material and proteins compose up to 25% of the atmospheric aerosol, and the source strength of the biogenic aerosol in general must be corrected and should be estimated on the order of other major aerosol sources.
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The contribution of bacteria and fungal spores to the organic carbon content of cloud water, precipitation and aerosols
H. Bauer,Anne Kasper-Giebl,M Löflund,H. Giebl,Regina Hitzenberger,Franziska Zibuschka,Hans Puxbaum +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the number of bacteria and fungal spores in cloud water, snow, rain and aerosol samples collected at a continental background site in the Austrian Alps were determined.
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Development of a gas chromatographic/ion trap mass spectrometric method for the determination of levoglucosan and saccharidic compounds in atmospheric aerosols. Application to urban aerosols
TL;DR: While monosaccharide anhydrides were relatively more important during the winter season owing to wood burning, the other saccharidic compounds were more prevalent during the summer season, with some of them, if not all, originating from the vegetation.
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Culturability and concentration of indoor and outdoor airborne fungi in six single-family homes
Taekhee Lee,Sergey A. Grinshpun,Dainius Martuzevicius,Dainius Martuzevicius,Atin Adhikari,Carlos Crawford,Tiina Reponen +6 more
TL;DR: Increased culturability of fungi inside the homes may have important implications because of the potential increase in the release of allergens from viable spores and pathogenicity of viable fungi on immunocompromised individuals.
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Effect of Sampling Time on the Collection Efficiency of All-Glass Impingers
TL;DR: In this article, the inner diameter of the impingement nozzle was found to be the most critical dimension affecting the collection efficiency of all-glass impingers and significant variations were found in the performance of individual impingers due to the variations in the critical dimensions of impingers tested.