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The worst enemy of microbes just got even stronger! Sporometrics expanded our prestigious American Industrial Hygiene Association Laboratory Accreditation Program (AIHA-LAP) accreditation to all fields of testing (FOTs): FUNGI, BACTERIA and LEGIONELLA. We're the first and only lab in Canada accredited in all fields!

We are delighted to announce that Sporometrics has recently become fully accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard by the American Industrial Hygiene Association Laboratory Accreditation Programs (AIHA LAP, LLC). Accreditation represents the single most comprehensive and widely recognized international credential in the performance of environmental microbiological laboratory analyses of a range of matrices from the […]

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This test provides a low-level identification of a pure fungal culture by sequencing of portions of the nuclear ribosomal gene, specifically the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region or other gene regions deemed most suitable based on preliminary culture and microscopic screening. Although it is not always possible to recover fungi in pure culture in order […]

The fungi Histoplasma capsulatum and Cryptococcus neoformans are two agents of serious disease in otherwise healthy, immunologically normal humans and animals. Both agents are endemic in Canada, and both occur in the droppings of certain bird species in addition to other materials. Additionally, the bacterium Chlamydophila psittaci is the causative agent of psittacosis and is […]