Services:
- Indoor environment survey
- Air sampling
- Surface sampling
- Dust collection and analysis
Conventional culture
Assays for fungal antigens
- Isolation of Moulds from building fabric
Conventional culture
Fungicide susceptibility testing
- Water analysis for moulds
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A comprehensive service:
- Risk assessment of fungal contaminants in mouldy buildings
- Site visits
- Quantitative air sampling
- Analysis of dust and water by mycological, immunological and molecular techniques
- Mycological expertise
- Rapid turn around time (1 week)
- Interpretation and significance of fungal isolations
- Literature service
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The benefits of the scheme include:
- Risk assessment -a model to predict nosocomial infection in Haematology units, Intensive care, Transplantation units, General Hospital areas.
- An indication of the need for antifungal prophylaxis
- An indication of the need for pre-emptive therapy
- An indication of the need for effective infection control measures
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Special services:
- Risk assessment of nosocomial fungal pathogens in hospital environments
- Air sampling
- Analysis of dust and water by mycological, immunological and molecular techniques
- Outbreaks of hosputal acquired fungal infection
- Strain typing
- Education in nosocomial fungal infection
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