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Volume 3
Microbiology 2019 & Fungal infections 2019
October 07-08, 2019
Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious diseases
October 07-08, 2019 | Madrid, Spain
MICROBIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGISTS
MYCOLOGY AND FUNGAL INFECTIONS
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J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, Volume 3
Study of the airborne pollen grains in Rosetta, Egypt
Wafaa K Taia, Mohammed I Abdo
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Iman Bassioni
Alexandria University, Egypt
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n aero palynological study was carried out in the atmosphere of Rosetta city, Egypt during a period of one year from
August 2015 until July 2016, using a Hirst type volumetric pollen trap. An annual pollen index of 1991 grains was
obtained with the highest pollen records from February till May. The main pollen taxain abundance order are Poaceae,
Arecaceae, Chenopodiaceae/Amaranthaceae complex, Casuarina, Cupressaceae, Urtica, Pinus, Myrtaceae. A total of eight
pollen types with minimum 10-day mean equal to or greater than 0.1 pollen grains/m3 of air are involved to construct an
approximate pollen calendar. The data obtained in this work was compared with others elsewhere in the world. Correlation
effects between pollen counts and different meteorological parameters (temperature, rainfall and relative humidity) as well as
number of allergic patients were investigated. Most of the recorded pollen grains are of allergenic effects.
Biography
Wafaa K Taia, graduated fromAlexandria university, Egypt and got her Ph.D. from Reading university, England. Her major field is Botany,
Angiosperm taxonomy, Eco taxonomy and biodiversity. Her main interest is plant taxonomy, allergy, and the effect of environment on
the plants. She attained a lot of conferences inside and outside Egypt and has many publications in the above-mentioned items. She
is teaching plant taxonomy, Speciation, Angiosperm phylogeny, Palynology, Flora, General Botany and post graduate courses in
Alexandria University, Faculty of Science. She had valuable work on the effect of habitats, environmental conditions and sea elevation
on the plants. She did many works on allergy, air pollution and causes of environmental disorders. She attained lot off
M.Sc. and Ph.D.
Juries in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Spain (MALAGA), as an examiner of the thesis. She has reviewed many scientific papers in her
field of interest She published book entitled ‘Biodiversity and plant taxonomy’: Definition, History and Classification. Lambert Academic
Publishing (2017).
e:
taia55taxonomy@hotmail.com