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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Feb 7.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2006 Sep;17(6):450–457. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3038.2006.00414.x

Table 2.

Geometric mean (GM) in number of spores per cubic meter for total concentration and four most frequent fungal genera in indoor and outdoor samples by season

All data
Spring 2003
Spring 2004
Fall 2003 and 2004
Genera GM Minimum Maximum GM Minimum Maximum GM Minimum Maximum GM Minimum Maximum
Indoor
n = 144
n = 25
n = 45
n = 74
Total count 145 2 2295 277 10 1252 54 3 568 229 2 2295
Cladosporium 30 <2 920 35 <2 333 7 <2 92 52 <2 920
Penicillium/Aspergillus 23 <2 1205 160 10 612 30 <2 392 15 <2 1205
Basidiospores 16 <2 791 15 <2 133 3 <2 95 36 <2 791
Ascospores 7 <2 248 15 <2 116 3 <2 45 10 <2 248
Outdoor
n = 147
n = 37
n = 38
n = 72
Total count 2469 438 10,417 2474 1219 5829 1170 438 2685 3658 836 10,417
Cladosporium 365 0 6565 321 33 2101 141 0 745 691 11 6565
Penicillium/Aspergillus 1144 147 3428 1258 621 2868 680 147 1661 1433 227 3428
Basidiospores 113 0 1188 114 3 966 72 0 273 318 0 1188
Ascospores 202 0 1424 492 222 1424 76 0 632 226 33 1287
*

Fall 2003 and 2004 datasets were combined because no differences were observed in average concentrations.