MoBiAir - The Solution for Mould Problems

Mouldy Buildings Surveillance

Quantitative methods for the investigation of mouldy buildings

Services:

  • INDOOR ENVIRONMENT SURVEY

  • AIR SAMPLING

  • SURFACE SAMPLING

  • DUST COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
    CONVENTIONAL ASSAYS FOR FUNGAL ANTIGENS DNA analysis

  • ISOLATION OF MOULDS FROM BUILDING FABRIC CONVENTIONAL CULTURE FUNGICIDE SUSCEPTIBLITY TESTING

  • WATER ANALYSIS FOR MOULDS

 A comprehensive service

  • Risk assessment of fungal contaminant 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

Nosocomial fungal infections

 A range of special services to improve the quality of patient care by reducing fungal infections caused by yeasts and moulds

The benefits of the scheme include:

  • Risk assessment: a model to predict nosocomial fungal infection in:

Haematology units
Intensive care units
Transplantation unit
General hospital areas

  • An indication of the need for antifungal prophylaxis

  • An indication for the need for pre-emptive therapy

  • An indication for the need for effective infection control measures

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 hospital-acquired fungal infection investigation

  • Strain tying

  • Education in nosocomial fungal infection

Home

Publications
- Fungal infection
- Fungi:toxic killers?

- Sampling of Aspergillus
 
Contact information
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Links
www.fugenex.com www.fungalforum.com 
www.doctorfungus.com    




Key publications:

Richardson MD , Rennie S, Marshall I, Morgan MG, Murphy JA, Shankland GS, Watson WH, Soutar RL 
Fungal surveillance of an open haematology ward. Journal of Hospital Infection 2000; 44: 1-5.

Morris G, Kokki MH, Anderson K, Richardson MD Sampling of Aspergillus spores in air. Journal of Hospital Infection 2000; 44: 81-92.

Richardson MD 
The effective preventiosystemic fungal infection: precluding the risk of environmental exposure. Key Advances in Systemic Fungal Infections, 2nd Edition, 2003.

Richardson MD & Warnock DW
Fungal Infection: Diagnosis and Management, 3rd Edition. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford , 2003.