Table 2.
Concentration of total fungal spores in FSSST and air samples during summer and winter.
| Summer | Winter | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fungal spores in FSSST samples (n = 10) | Fungal spores in air samples (n = 10) | Fungal spores in FSSST samples (n = 8a) | Fungal spores in air samples (n = 10) | |||||
| Range (spores/m2) | Percentage of occurrence (%) | Range (spores/m3) | Percentage of occurrence (%) | Range (spores/m2) | Percentage of occurrence (%) | Range (spores/m3) | Percentage of occurrence (%) | |
| Spore types | ||||||||
| Alternaria | <LLOD-14,899 | 10 | <LLOD-17 | 10 | <LLOD-59,597 | 25 | 0 | |
| Aspergillus/Penicillium | 39,110–1,013,144 | 100 | 100–3504 | 100 | <LLOD-953,547 | 88 | 131–12,519 | 100 |
| Arthrinium | <LLOD-104,294 | 10 | <LLOD-130 | 20 | <LLOD-119,193 | 13 | 0 | |
| Ascospores | 11,174–208,589 | 100 | <LLOD-1105 | 90 | <LLOD-119,193 | 63 | <LLOD-3130 | 80 |
| Basidiospores | <LLOD-208,589 | 50 | <LLOD-765 | 80 | 0 | <LLOD-709 | 30 | |
| Bispora | <LLOD-5587 | 10 | <LLOD-14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Botrytis | <LLOD-5587 | 10 | <LLOD-8 | 10 | 0 | <LLOD-14 | 10 | |
| Botryodiplodia | 0 | <LLOD-95 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Cercospora | 0 | <LLOD-41 | 20 | 0 | <LLOD-14 | 10 | ||
| Coprinus | 0 | <LLOD-52 | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Chaetomium | <LLOD-2,771,247 | 50 | <LLOD-945 | 70 | <LLOD-595,967 | 25 | 0 | |
| Cladosporium | <LLOD-59,597 | 50 | <LLOD-408 | 80 | <LLOD-11,174 | 33 | 38–6203 | 60 |
| Curvularia | <LLOD-23,349 | 20 | <LLOD-8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Drechslera | 0 | <LLOD-95 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Epicoccum | <LLOD-14,899 | 10 | < LLOD-7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ganoderma | 0 | <LLOD-389 | 80 | <LLOD-59,597 | 13 | <LLOD-39 | 10 | |
| Nigrospora | <LLOD-44,698 | 10 | 0 | 0 | <LLOD-165 | 10 | ||
| Periconia | 0 | <LLOD-378 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Peronospora | 0 | <LLOD-95 | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Pithomyces | <LLOD-14,899 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Polythrincium | 0 | <LLOD-8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Psathyrella | 0 | <LLOD-8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Rusts | 0 | <LLOD-25 | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Smuts/Myxomycetes | 0 | <LLOD-544 | 60 | <LLOD-238,387 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Sporidesmium | 0 | <LLOD-23 | 20 | 0 | <LLOD-14 | 10 | ||
| Stachybotrys | 0 | < LLOD-136 | 20 | <LLOD-5587 | 13 | 0 | ||
| Tetraploa | 0 | <LLOD-6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Unknown spores | 5587–134,093 | 100 | <LLOD-816 | 60 | <LLOD-297,984 | 50 | <LLOD-1521 | 40 |
| Total spores | 55,872–4,559,149 | 200–8128 | 27,936–2,443,465 | 232–15,649 | ||||
Abbreviation: LLOD: Lower limit of detection.
a
n=8 for winter FSSST samples because spores in two samples were not visible under the microscope due to excess of dust particles.