Abstract

The method most commonly used to document the presence of mould in the air of an environment consists of cultivating the sampled microorganisms in the laboratory, which requires extensive expertise and a lot of time due to the incubation period. The processes used for analyzing an environment’s cultivable mycological flora do not determine the non-cultivable flora, which can also have impacts on health. The spore trap method, limited to mould analysis, is a rapid exploratory technique.

The authors were able to document this method’s limits of detection and quantification, verified its scope and precision, but mainly, the IRSST now has an exploratory method for analyzing total mycological contamination