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ReviewFrontiers in public health2025

Critical insights on fungal contamination in schools: a comprehensive review of assessment methods.

Renata Cervantes, Pedro Pena, Bruna Riesenberger, Margarida Rodriguez, Drew Henderson, Sara Gonçalves, Enas Newire, Clara Pogner, Heidi Salonen, Marina Almeida Silva and 3 more

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. The Indoor Microbiome: Sampling, Analysis and Emerging Trends.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Renata CervantesH&TRC-Health and Technology Research Center, ESTeSL-Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Pedro PenaH&TRC-Health and Technology Research Center, ESTeSL-Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Bruna RiesenbergerH&TRC-Health and Technology Research Center, ESTeSL-Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Margarida RodriguezH&TRC-Health and Technology Research Center, ESTeSL-Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Drew HendersonSchool of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.
Sara GonçalvesH&TRC-Health and Technology Research Center, ESTeSL-Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Enas NewireSchool of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.
Clara PognerAIT-Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria.
Heidi SalonenDepartment of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
Marina Almeida SilvaH&TRC-Health and Technology Research Center, ESTeSL-Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Robert M W FergusonSchool of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.
Ulla Haverinen-ShaughnessyCivil Engineering Research Unit, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Carla ViegasH&TRC-Health and Technology Research Center, ESTeSL-Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review addresses the increasing problem of fungal contamination in schools, which has a profound impact on indoor air quality and student health. Fungal contamination creates health problems such as respiratory problems, allergies, which can be particularly harmful in schools (e.g.,

Indexed as

Air MicrobiologyAir Pollution, IndoorEnvironmental MonitoringFungiSchoolsHumansexposure assessmentFungiIAQschoolstarget fungal pathogens

Identifiers

PMID40626168
PMCPMC12230019

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