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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 18.
Published in final edited form as: Aerosol Sci Technol. 2015 Apr 18;49(6):423–435. doi: 10.1080/02786826.2015.1040486

Table 1. Size and aspect ratio of spore particles.

A. fumigatus A. versicolor P. chrysogenum



S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6
N 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
AM
 Length 2.68 4.77 6.42 6.83 8.55 12.26 2.97 5.87 8.00 10.61 12.51 15.04 2.41 4.32 6.77 8.88 11.45 12.28
 Width 2.25 2.61 3.20 3.64 3.65 4.26 2.53 2.66 3.20 3.65 3.75 4.25 2.02 2.07 2.22 2.78 2.88 3.34
 Aspect ratio 1.20 1.83 2.05 1.97 2.45 3.14 1.18 2.22 2.57 3.10 3.70 3.88 1.21 2.16 3.11 3.45 4.19 4.16
SD
 Length 0.27 0.61 1.61 1.15 1.03 2.48 0.26 0.78 1.15 1.82 2.30 3.17 0.28 0.48 1.10 2.03 1.93 2.11
 Width 0.30 0.19 0.46 0.85 0.94 1.08 0.19 0.21 0.50 0.97 1.09 1.10 0.35 0.38 0.31 0.62 0.74 1.13
 Aspect ratio 0.15 0.23 0.59 0.56 0.58 1.26 0.20 0.34 0.56 0.94 1.44 1.63 0.20 0.46 0.63 1.33 1.04 1.63

AM: Arithmetic mean; SD: standard deviation; length and width in μm.

S1: Single spores; aggregates of 2 (S2), 3 (S3), 4 (S4), 5 (S5) and 6 (S6) spores