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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2023

Filters of automobile air conditioning systems as in-car source of exposure to infections and toxic moulds.

Małgorzata Gołofit-Szymczak, Angelina Wójcik-Fatla, Agata Stobnicka-Kupiec, Rafał L Górny

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Małgorzata Gołofit-SzymczakDepartment of Chemical, Aerosol and Biological Hazards, Central Institute for Labour Protection-National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland. magol@ciop.pl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1463-404X
Angelina Wójcik-FatlaDepartment of Health Biohazards and Parasitology, Institute of Rural Health, Lublin, Poland.
Agata Stobnicka-KupiecDepartment of Chemical, Aerosol and Biological Hazards, Central Institute for Labour Protection-National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Rafał L GórnyDepartment of Chemical, Aerosol and Biological Hazards, Central Institute for Labour Protection-National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Central Institute for Labour Protection · PLInstytut Medycyny Wsi im. Witolda Chodźki · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The main component of an air conditioning system is air filters. Over time, the filters of an air conditioning system in cars can turn into sources of emission of microbiological hazards. The aim of this study was to quantitatively and qualitatively assess the presence of infectious and toxic fungi in the AC filters in passenger cars. The studied non-woven filters were removed from passenger cars during the "winter"/"summer" seasons. The taxonomic identification of the fungi isolated from the filters was performed using both the culture-based and molecular methods. RT-PCR was applied to assess the presence of gene fragments regulating aflatoxin biosynthesis in the isolates obtained from fungal cultures. The average fungal concentrations in the filter samples collected during the summer/winter season were 5.4 × 10

Indexed as

Air FiltersAir Pollutants, OccupationalAir Pollution, IndoorOccupational ExposureAir ConditioningAir MicrobiologyAutomobilesFungiAir Pollutants, OccupationalAflatoxinAir conditioning systemCarsFiltersHarmful biological agentsMoulds

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PMID37749467
PMCPMC10611836
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