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PEDIATRIC ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
卷 24, 期 7, 页码 697-703出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pai.12127
关键词
asthma; children; fungus; inner-city; mold; school
资金
- NIH [R01 AI 073964, R01 AI 073964-02S1, K24 AI 106822, U10HL098102]
- Harvard Catalyst/The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (NIH) [UL1 RR 025758]
- Harvard University and its affiliated academic healthcare centers
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 2day 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 176.64.2 spores/m3 (geometric meanstandard 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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