CONTEXT
As people spent 80% of his time in more insulated buildings, with sometimes poor ventilation and high dampness, people may be exposed to high concentrations of molds. The analysis of fungal populations in homes has commonly been based on the collection of short air samples followed by microscopic observation or by culturing the fungi on one or two media. These technologies as having serious drawbacks.
In this study [1] [2], our goal was to determine if the US Environmental Relative Moldiness Index (ERMI) scale might have application in France and if this index were correlated with other measures of fungal contamination. Dust and air samples were obtained from dwellings classified by inspection as “Moldy” or “Non-Moldy” and analyzed by quantitative PCR for the 36 fungi that make-up the ERMI and/or by culturing
