Automatic airborne pollen monitoring offers potential to enable real-time, sustainable environmental health information to assist with management of allergic respiratory disease. Automatic systems, however, have not been widely deployed in the Southern Hemisphere, where there is considerable biodiversity. An automatic holography-based device combined with a classification algorithm was trialled in Australia for 15 months over...

Grass pollen is the major outdoor allergen source, inducing allergic rhinitis in susceptible people. In Australia, the considerable prevalence of allergic rhinitis (23.8%) and asthma (11%) is creating a major health and economic burden. Subtropical grass species exhibit distinct ecological and phylogenetic differences compared with temperate grasses, including variations in pollen allergen composition and immune response. Trad...