Table 1.

Surveys of fungi in drinking water.

Country, Place, Year	Period of time	Type of water	Main isolation method	Most frequent fungal isolates	Refs.
United Kingdom, 1996	Autumn and Spring	Surface water and network	Membrane filtration, Direct plating and Bating	Aspergillus, Cladosporium, Epicoccum, Penicillium and Trichoderma	[4]
Greece, Thessaloniki, 1998	One collection (126 samples)	Tap water (hospital and community)	Membrane filtration	Penicillium, Aspergillus and Acremonium	[14]
Greece, 85 haemodialysis units, 1998	One collection (255 samples)	Municipal water supplies of haemodialysis centres	Membrane filtration	Penicillium and Aspergillus	[15]
Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, 1998/9	12 months	Drinking water	Pour-plating	Acremonium, Exophiala, Penicillium and Phialophora	[5]
Norway, 14 networks, 2002/3	December, June and September	Drinking water (surface and groundwater)	Membrane filtration	Penicillium, Trichoderma and Aspergillus	[9,10]
Portugal, Braga, 2003/4	12 months	Tap water	Membrane filtration	Penicillium and Acremonium	[8]
Pakistan, Karachi, 2007	One collection (30 samples)	Water (and fruit juice)	Direct plating	Aspergillus niger and A. clavatus	[16]
Australia, Queensland, 2007/8	18 months	Municipal water	Membrane filtration	Cladosporium, Penicillium, Aspergillus and Fusarium	[13]
Brazil, Recife, 2009/10	5 months	Water treatment plant; tap water	Membrane filtration	Penicillium, Aspergillus and Phoma	[17]
Portugal, Lisbon, 2010	4 months	surface water; spring water; groundwater	Membrane filtration	Aspergillus, Cladosporium, Penicillium	[18,19]