Georgia Air Quality Specialists Search for Baseline Fungi Levels in Undamaged Homes

Scientists from Air Quality Sciences, a Georgia firm specializing in air quality assessment, recently published their report of a study to determine baseline levels of airborne and dustborne mycoflora in residential homes.

The report was published in the November issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, published by the American Society for Microbiology.

In it, authors W. Elliott Horner and Anthony G. Worthan of Air Quality Sciences Inc. in Marietta, Ga., and Philip R. Morey of the firm's Gettysburg, Pa., offices, detail the results of a study undertaken at the behest of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. …