ArticlePediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology2013
Exposures to molds in school classrooms of children with asthma.
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- Inner-City Asthma in Children.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2019Review
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- A Practical Approach to Severe Asthma in Children.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2018Review
- NIAID, NIEHS, NHLBI, and MCAN Workshop Report: The indoor environment and childhood asthma-implications for home environmental intervention in asthma prevention and management.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2017Article
- Repeated Mouse Lung Exposures to Stachybotrys chartarum Shift Immune Response from Type 1 to Type 2.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2016Article
- Subchronic exposures to fungal bioaerosols promotes allergic pulmonary inflammation in naïve mice.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2016Article
- Recent advances in environmental controls outside the home setting.Current opinion in allergy and clinical immunology · 2016Review
- Inner city asthma.Immunology and allergy clinics of North America · 2015Review
- Mold contamination in schools with either high or low prevelance of asthma.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2015Article
- Environmental mold and mycotoxin exposures elicit specific cytokine and chemokine responses.PloS one · 2015Article
- Introducing an environmental assessment and intervention program in inner-city schools.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2014Review
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Abstract
backgroundStudents spend a large portion of their day in classrooms which may be a source of mold exposure. We examined the diversity and concentrations of molds in inner-city schools and described differences between classrooms within the same school.
methodsClassroom airborne mold spores, collected over a 2 day period, were measured twice during the school year by direct microscopy.
resultsThere were 180 classroom air samples collected from 12 schools. Mold was present in 100% of classrooms. Classrooms within the same school had differing mold levels and mold diversity scores. The total mold per classroom was 176.6 ± 4.2 spores/m3 (geometric mean ± standard deviation) and ranged from 11.2 to 16,288.5 spores/m3. Mold diversity scores for classroom samples ranged from 1 to 19 (7.7 ± 3.5). The classroom accounted for the majority of variance (62%) in the total mold count, and for the majority of variance (56%) in the mold diversity score versus the school. The species with the highest concentrations and found most commonly included Cladosporium (29.3 ± 4.2 spores/m3), Penicillium/Aspergillus (15.0 ± 5.4 spores/m3), smut spores (12.6 ± 4.0 spores/m3), and basidiospores (6.6 ± 7.1 spores/m3).
conclusionsOur study found that the school is a source of mold exposure, but particularly the classroom microenvironment varies in quantity of spores and species among classrooms within the same school. We also verified that visible mold may be a predictor for higher mold spore counts. Further studies are needed to determine the clinical significance of mold exposure relative to asthma morbidity in sensitized and non-sensitized asthmatic children.
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