Viegas Carla, Dias Marta, Viegas Susana
H&TRC-Health & Technology Research Center, ESTeSL-Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, 1990-096 Lisbon, Portugal.
Public Health Research Centre, NOVA National School of Public Health, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1099-085 Lisbon, Portugal.
Pathogens. 2022 Mar 12;11(3):345. doi: 10.3390/pathogens11030345.
Electrostatic dust cloths (EDC) have been widely used for microbiologic contamination assessment in different indoor and occupational environments. This paper reviews sixteen studies performed in Portugal between 2018 and 2021 for evaluating the exposure to microbiological agents and focusing on fungi using EDC as a passive sampling method. The findings suggest that EDC can be applied as a screening method for particulate matter-exposure assessment and as a complementary method to characterize microbial exposures in occupational environments. Overall, EDC should be included, side by side with other sampling methods, in sampling campaigns focused on exposure assessments due to the advantages such as the straightforward extraction protocol favoring the employment of different assays, which allows us to assess exposure to a wide range of microbial agents, and presents higher accuracy regarding the fungal diversity.
静电除尘布（EDC）已广泛用于不同室内和职业环境中的微生物污染评估。本文回顾了2018年至2021年在葡萄牙进行的16项研究，这些研究以EDC作为被动采样方法，用于评估微生物暴露情况并重点关注真菌。研究结果表明，EDC可作为颗粒物暴露评估的筛查方法，以及作为职业环境中微生物暴露特征描述的补充方法。总体而言，由于具有诸如提取方案简单有利于采用不同检测方法等优势，EDC应与其他采样方法一起纳入侧重于暴露评估的采样活动中，这使我们能够评估对多种微生物制剂的暴露情况，并且在真菌多样性方面具有更高的准确性。
