Culture-Based Air Samples

Serious infections caused by filamentous or dimorphic fungi are rare in immunologically normal people and normally only caused by one of several pathogenic species. In people with varying degrees of immune dysfunction, however, serious fungal infections are common, and may be caused by a much larger set of fungi many of which are not pathogenic […]

Culture-dependent air sampling remains a mainstay of fungal air sampling. Culture-based methods involve the collection of airborne particles by impaction or centrifugation on the surface of a growth medium. The airborne burden of culturable fungi is then extrapolated based on the colony counts obtained after incubation of the sampled media. Culturable air sampling results are […]

This test determines the presence of airborne culturable thermophilic actinomycetes and expresses the result in Colony Forming Units per Cubic Metre of air (CFU/m³). Actinomycetes are a large and diverse group of Gram-positive bacteria that have growth habits similar to fungi in that they produce branching networks of filaments. Thermophilic actinomycetes occur in a wide […]

This test determines the presence of airborne culturable psychrophilic actinomycetes and expresses the result in Colony Forming Units per Cubic Metre of air (CFU/m³). Actinomycetes are a large and diverse group of Gram-positive bacteria that have growth habits similar to fungi in that they produce branching networks of filaments. Psychrophilic actinomycetes grow optimally at low […]

This test determines the presence of airborne culturable mesophilic actinomycetes and expresses the result in Colony Forming Units per Cubic Metre of air (CFU/m³). Actinomycetes are a large and diverse group of Gram-positive bacteria that have growth habits similar to fungi in that they produce branching networks of filaments. Mesophilic actinomycetes occur in a wide […]