Project Leader

Roberto Albertini
Phone: +39 (0)33 886 9636
Fax: +39 (0)521 702 966

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Project Staff

Pierpaolo Dall'Aglio
Chief Allergology Operative Unit of Department Clinical Medicine, Nephology and Heath Sciences
Fax: +39 (0)521 702 966

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Manuela Ugolotti
Scholarship holder

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Isabella Usberti
Technician

Silvana Pinelli

Institute Presentation

Laboratory of Aerobiology and Quality Environmental Control
Department of Clinical Medicine, Nephrology and Health Sciences
University of Parma
U.O. Clinical and Immunological Medicine
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Italy
http://www2.unipr.it/~patmed/centro2.htm

The activity of aerobiological monitoring in Parma has started with the Prof. Pierpaolo Dall’Aglio, at present Director of U.O. Clinical and Immunological Medicine, in 1980 and it makes part of the network coordinated by the Italian Association of Aerobiology (AIA), from 1985. The location of the survey station is remained the same over the years. The collected data are used for the prevention, the diagnosis, the management of the pharmacology therapy and for the immunotherapy of the patients with pollenosis. The monitoring of pollens by Burkard or Lanzoni pollen trap was performed in accordance with standard methods of the Italian Aerobiology Association (AIA), now also recognised as: UNI 11108/2004. Our U.O. has an important outpatients clinic, provincial point of reference for the allergies, that every year sees approximately 1600 patients.

RESEARCH LINES
Aerobiology
• Monitoring outdoor and indoor airborne pollens, spores, bacteria and concentration of allergens
• Allergology
• Clean rooms air quality
• Health impacts

Participation to international Projects: European project MONALISA; European project HIALINE

Aerobiological Operative Activities
• Weekly bulletins for the city of Parma
http://www2.unipr.it/~patmed/centrogaerr.html
• Weekly bulletins for Italy (with Italian Association of Aerobiology-AIA)
http://www.ilpolline.it/bollettino-pollinico
http://rima.siag.it/Default_it.aspx
http://www.re-actine.it/default.asp
http://www.kataweb.it/speciali/pollini/pollini.html

Collaborations: Italian Aerobiology Association - AIA; Regional Agency for Environmental Protection – ARPA; Bertin Technologies

University of Parma will install the Chemvol sampler next to Hirst pollen trap on the roof of a Meteorological tower of Parma University; this is located in the town centre near Parma’s old Ducal park, with old ornamental plants (Platanaceae, Hippocastanaceae, Aceraceae, Corylaceae) and grasses, 18 m above the ground level, 52 m above sea level; lat nord 44.48.15 long.10.19.est; montemario long 2°8’13’’ ovest. The climate is continental-temperate with predominant wind directions SW – NE. The city of Parma, with 180,000 inhabitants, lies in the Po valley, to the South of the Po river, 100 km from the Tyrrhenian coast and 200 km from the Adriatic coast.