Literature review for influential factors on species distribution of airborne fungi in indoor air

Recently, airborne fungi as indoor air pollutant have attention due to its health related problems such asasthma, rhinitis, sinusitis, atopy, pneumonia, building syndrome and etc.. However, it is considered that currentlaws and policies in Korea are not efficient to deal with these problems. Our research investigated influentialfactors and species distribution on the basis of previous research related to airborne fungi issueconduced in Korea by applying meta analysis technique. We selected 15 articles containing variables affectingfungi population such as outdoor air characteristics, temperature, location, and ventilation to evaluatesignificant factors. It was confirmed that airborne fungi level has partial correlation to those factors despiteof limited sample size. It is required that the consistent and systematic research effort should be extendedto characterize health effect caused by these fungi as well as to control them efficiently