Waste Management

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 […]

The analysis of vacuum collected dust is widely used to estimate microbiological exposures in human population health studies. In this context, dust analysis has repeatedly proven to be a useful proxy of exposure, because it serves as a reservoir for particles to which people are exposed in indoor environments. Dust itself also serves as a […]