Tree pollen allergy in Southwestern Ontario
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* Correspondence: [email protected] Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Figure 1 Transparent grey color represents the Weather Network pollen counts. Local counts are in color. The width of the bar represents the season, while the height represents quantity of the individual pollens. Note the small quantities of alder, birch and elm. Considerable mulberry, walnut/hickory and cedar/juniper present in our local counts were not reported by the Weather Network. Tsai et al. Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology 2012, 8(Suppl 1):A11 http://www.aacijournal.com/content/8/S1/A11 ALLERGY, ASTHMA & CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
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