| a comparison of sampling methods for airborne fungal spores during an outbreak of aspergillosis in the forest aviary of the north carolina zoological park. | an outbreak of aspergillosis with the death of six birds in the north carolina zoological park r. j. reynolds forest aviary in the spring of 1993 led to an investigation of the concentration of aspergillus fumigatus spores in the air. no aspergillus sp. was found in the facility through use of the drop plate method (gravitometric sampling) along with swab-sampling of selected surfaces within the exhibit and plating of food samples and nesting material onto petri dishes of nutrient media. a numbe ... | 1997 | 9523640 |
| quantitative pcr analysis of molds in the dust from homes of asthmatic children in north carolina. | the vacuum bag (vb) dust from the homes of 19 asthmatic children in north carolina (nc) was analyzed by mold specific quantitative pcr. these results were compared to the analysis of the vb dust from 176 homes in the hud, american healthy home survey of homes in the us. the environmental relative moldiness index (ermi) was calculated for each of the homes. the mean and standard deviation (sd) of the ermi values in the homes of the nc asthmatic children was 16.4 (6.77), compared to the hud survey ... | 2007 | 17671663 |
| multistate outbreak of fungal infection associated with injection of methylprednisolone acetate solution from a single compounding pharmacy - united states, 2012. | on september 18, 2012, the tennessee department of health was alerted by a clinician regarding a patient with culture-confirmed aspergillus fumigatus meningitis diagnosed 46 days after epidural steroid injection at a tennessee ambulatory surgical center. by september 27, the initial investigation, carried out by the tennessee department of health in collaboration with cdc and the north carolina department of health and human services, had identified an additional eight patients with clinically d ... | 2012 | 23076093 |