[Observations on the airborne fungi and their relationship to asthmatic patients in Shenyang Maluwan area].

From July 1990 to June, observations were made of the type and amount of fungi present in the air, in the Maluwan District of Shenyang City, using dish-exposure and slide-exposure as method of detection. 954 colonies of fungi were isolated with dish-exposure, consisting of 47 species; and 11,033 fungi spores were collected with the slide-exposure. Skin tests were made using 13 species of fungi allergen for 114 cases of asthmatic patients, the positive rate was 73.7%. A special desensitization therapy was given to 103 cases of asthmatic patients, the total effective rate was 86.4%, while antiasthma drugs gave an effective rate of 41.1% (P < 0.01).