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Fungi are microorganisms that are commonly found growing indoors (e.g on building materials).\u00a0 Fungi Produce airborne contamination in the form of conidia (spores), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and mycotoxins.\u00a0 Typical signs of fungal contamination include water damage, high levels of humidity, and physical presence.\u00a0 However, these signs cannot be used as sole indicators of fungal contamination. Newly constructed buildings with no history of water damage and no physical signs of fungal.\u00a0 When fungi infest buildings, they can induce allergic reactions, toxic poisoning, and symptoms of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS).\u00a0 Common complaints associated with exposure to some fungi include allergic reactions, eye and sinus irritation, sore throat headaches congestion nausea. Current methods for detecting microbial contamination include visual inspection, air sampling and analysis by gas chromatography and\u00a0mass spectrometry, and culture analysis.\u00a0 An alternate method to detect microbial contamination involves the use of a sensor ray.<\/p>\n
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Fungi are microorganisms that are commonly found growing indoors (e.g on building materials).\u00a0 Fungi Produce airborne contamination in the form of conidia (spores), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and mycotoxins.\u00a0 Typical signs of fungal contamination include water damage, high levels of humidity, and physical presence.\u00a0 However, these signs cannot be used as sole indicators of fungal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/mol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/mol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/mol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/mol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/mol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/mol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/mol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/mol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/mol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/mol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}