TY - JOUR AB - Aerobiologia 17: iii, 2001. iii Dear Reader, A monitoring campaign on airborne fungi has been carried out in Santiago, Chile, from September The first article published in this issue is focussed 1996 through August 1997 by Ibáñez Henriquez et on an investigation carried out by Recer et al., from al. The article provides interesting information about the USA. The authors conducted research on viable the major fungal allergens in the area, with the aim Aspergillus fumigatus and thermophilic actinomycetes of facilitating diagnosis and treatment of respiratory levels upwind and downwind of a large yard-waste allergies. composting facility and sought to determine whether Jato et al. from Spain focussed their investigation levels in a residential neighbourhood near the facility on Platanus pollen, which according to a number of were elevated above background levels due to facility European studies, has to be considered as an important bioaerosol emissions. Spring allergen. The pollen have been monitored con- Griffiths et al., from the United Kingdom report on tinuously for six years examining the variation in the procedures for the characterisation of bioaerosol concentration due to meteorological factors, primarily particles. The article published here is the second part the temperature. of two papers. Its TI - Editorial JF - Aerobiologia DO - 10.1023/A:1017319423170 DA - 2004-10-19 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/editorial-PqximLhFZL SP - 3 EP - 3 VL - 17 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -