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. 2011 Jun;77(12):4180–4188. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02513-10

Table 3.

Qualitative (qual) and quantitative (quan) distribution (%) of associated fungi on different building materialsa

Fungus Distribution (%)
Concrete
Glass fiber
Gypsum
Plaster
Plywood
Wallpaper
Wood
qual quan qual quan qual quan qual quan qual quan qual quan qual quan
Acremonium spp. 13 14 3 3 8 8 25 22 3 5 8 6 14 15
Aspergillus niger 32 35 2 0 7 5 11 10 1 0 4 1 18 23
Aspergillus ochraceus 33 52 2 4 4 3 20 6 1 0 5 5 12 8
Aspergillus versicolor 20 26 3 3 4 4 25 21 1 1 11 7 11 10
Aureobasidium pullulans 3 0 0 9 6 0 14 11 9 6 3 0 46 37
Chaetomium spp. 25 35 2 2 6 9 15 11 1 2 10 3 17 18
Cladosporium herbarum 11 15 1 1 5 5 14 15 5 9 6 3 24 27
Cladosporium sphaerospermum 8 10 4 3 3 4 22 24 6 11 12 6 17 16
Mucor racemosus 36 54 1 0 3 3 17 14 0 0 5 1 15 10
Paecilomyces variotii 13 8 0 1 13 15 10 8 19 15 2 3 27 17
Penicillium spp. 19 26 3 2 6 6 20 16 2 3 10 6 17 18
Penicillium chrysogenum 12 18 2 2 11 14 21 18 3 4 16 5 13 15
Phoma spp. 9 12 9 12 4 1 15 9 2 4 12 6 12 11
Sporothrix spp. 18 21 3 2 3 4 39 37 0 2 7 4 7 7
Stachybotrys spp. 10 4 2 10 25 39 22 13 1 0 10 8 9 7
Trichoderma spp. 14 16 2 2 9 9 15 13 4 8 6 2 25 30
Ulocladium spp. 9 3 5 2 7 15 21 34 1 1 29 16 12 9
Yeasts 8 7 2 3 8 5 10 11 7 9 5 2 28 39
a

Values in bold give the materials on which the fungus is overrepresented (the associated mycobiota). Row sums are ≤100%.