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Table 2.4.

Survival of clinically relevant fungi on dry inanimate surfaces

Organisms	Range of survival (environment)	Reference
Aspergillus spp.	>30 days	Neely and Orloff [79]^a
Candida albicans	1 up to 120 days, 24 weeks (in soil-water mixture)	Neely and Orloff [79], Théraud et al. [105]^a
Candida parapsilosis	>30 days	Neely and Orloff [79]^a
Candida krusei	11 days	Neely and Orloff [79]^a
Cryptococcus spp.	24 weeks (in soil-water mixture)	Théraud et al. [105]^a
Fusarium spp.	>30 days	Neely and Orloff [79]^a
Mucor spp.	>30 days
Paecilomyces spp.	11 days
Torulopsis glabrata	102–150 days	Kane et al. [59]

^aAdditional references in Kramer et al. [64, 65]