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Allergenic pollen and pollen allergy in Europe.

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D’Amato, G., Cecchi, L., Bonini, S., Nunes, C., Annesi‐Maesano, I., Behrendt, H., Liccardi, G., Popov, T. +1 more·2007·Allergy

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The allergenic content of the atmosphere varies according to climate, geography and vegetation. Data on the presence and prevalence of allergenic airborne pollens, obtained from both aerobiological studies and allergological investigations, make it possible to design pollen calendars with the approximate flowering period of the plants in the sampling area. In this way, even though pollen production and dispersal from year to year depend on the patterns of preseason weather and on the conditions prevailing at the time of anthesis, it is usually possible to forecast the chances of encountering high atmospheric allergenic pollen concentrations in different areas. Aerobiological and allergological studies show that the pollen map of Europe is changing also as a result of cultural factors (for example, importation of plants such as birch and cypress for urban parklands), greater international travel (e.g. colonization by ragweed in France, northern Italy, Austria, Hungary etc.) and climate change. In this regard, the higher frequency of weather extremes, like thunderstorms, and increasing episodes of long range transport of allergenic pollen represent new challenges for researchers. Furthermore, in the last few years, experimental data on pollen and subpollen-particles structure, the pathogenetic role of pollen and the interaction between pollen and air pollutants, gave new insights into the mechanisms of respiratory allergic diseases.

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  • Pollen concentrations in outdoor air peak between late winter and spring, a period that coincides with high incidence of seasonally observed EHV-1-associated symptoms.

    “Interestingly, pollen concentrations in the outdoor air have been shown to peak between late winter and spring, a period that coincides with high incidence of seasonally observed EHV-1-associated symptoms (e.g., respiratory disease, abortion and EHM) (Goehring et al., 2006; D’Amato et al., 2007).”

    From The Pathogenesis and Immune Evasive Mechanisms of Equine Herpesvirus Type 1 (2021) · cites this paper as D’Amato et al., 2007

    The Trees section describes some pollen appearing from December through spring, but the paper does not establish a general outdoor pollen peak between late winter and spring. In “Allergenic pollen in the Mediterranean area,” it instead describes a low winter season and a high spring–summer season (April–July). The EHV-1 symptom pattern is not addressed by this source. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
D’Amato, G., Cecchi, L., Bonini, S., Nunes, C., Annesi‐Maesano, I., Behrendt, H., Liccardi, G., Popov, T., & Van Cauwenberge, P.
Affiliations
  • Ospedale Antonio Cardarelli (IT)
  • Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze (IT)
  • University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (IT)
  • Inserm (FR)
  • Technical University of Munich (DE)
  • Medical University of Sofia (BG)
Venue
Allergy
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2007-06-18
Volume
62
Issue
9
Pages
976-990
ISSN
  • 0105-4538 (ISSN-L)
  • 1398-9995
OpenAlex
W2024282184
Cited by
1,342
References
185
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FWCI
2.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Allergy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
  • mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich) (submittedVersion)
  • INFM-OAR (INFN Catania) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (other-oa)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Immunology and Allergy › Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
Keywords
allergenic pollen, allergic rhinitis, airborne pollen, pollen calendar, pollen dispersal, climate change, long-range pollen transport, ragweed, birch, cypress, extreme weather events, thunderstorms, allergic respiratory diseases
MeSH terms
Air Pollution, Allergens, Climate, Europe, Humans, Hypersensitivity, Plants, Pollen, Weather

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