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Effects after mold exposure – which are the causative agents?
Health Effects, Pathology, Epidemiology
Ragnar Rylander, M.D.
Department of Environmental Medicine,
University of Gothenburg, Box 414; 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden; Tel: +46 31
773 3601, Fax: +46 31 82 5004, e-mail: ragnar.rylander@envmed.gu.se
Abstract This
presentation reviews the most well known specific agents in molds and their
relation to the different effects caused by exposure to molds. It is
emphasized that field studies in principle only describe relationships and
that such relationships not always support conclusions regarding causality
for individual agents. At present, the general strategy to prevent the mold-related
diseases airways inflammation, increased risk for infections,
hypersensitivity pneumonitis and neurological disorders must therefore be to
remove the mold contamination, viable as well as dead organisms.
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