Detecting Airborne Pollen Using an Automatic, Real-Time Monitoring System: Evidence from Two Sites.

ABSTRACT: Airborne pollen monitoring has been an arduous task, making ecological applications and allergy management virtually disconnected from everyday practice. Over the last decade, intensive research has been conducted worldwide to automate this task and to obtain real-time measurements. The aim of this study was to evaluate such an automated biomonitoring system vs. the conventional 'gold-standard' Hirst-type technique, attempting to assess which may more accurately provide the genuine exposure to airborne pollen. Airborne pollen was monitored in Augsburg since 2015 with two different methods, a novel automatic Bio-Aerosol Analyser, and with the conventional 7-day recording Hirst-type volumetric trap, in two different sites. The reliability, performance, accuracy, and comparability of the BAA5

SUBMITTER: Plaza MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8872361 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature