A comparison of several media types and basic techniques used to assess outdoor airborne fungi in Melbourne, Australia.

Despite the recent increase in interest in indoor air quality regarding mould, t here is no single widely accepted standard media for the detection of airborne fungi, nor verification of many commonly used techniques. Commonly used media including malt-extract agar (MEA), Sabouraud dextrose agar (Sab, SDA, SabCG), potato dextrose agar (PDA) with and without antibiotics chloramphenicol &…

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