Increased Sensitization to Mold Allergens Measured by Intradermal Skin Testing following Hurricanes

Table 6

Positive mold results arranged by incidence.

	% pos	A (2010)	B (2015)	% pos
(1)	33	Rhizopus	Epidermophyton	72
(2)	25	Epidermophyton	Trichophyton	68
(3)	25	Trichophyton	Rhizopus	65
(4)	20	Helminthosporium	Penicillium	64
(5)	19	Mucor	Smut	58
(6)	16	Candida	Alternaria	56
(7)	16	Phoma	Phoma	56
(8)	15	Aspergillus	Helminthosporium	55
(9)	15	Penicillium	Fusarium	52
(10)	15	Stemphylium	Pullularia	52
(11)	14	Chaetomium	Stemphylium	52
(12)	13	Epicoccum	Mucor	51
(13)	13	Fusarium	Candida	50
(14)	11	Alternaria	Epicoccum	50
(15)	10	Curvularia	Cladosporium	49
(16)	9	Cladosporium	Chaetomium	46
(17)	8	Pullularia	Aspergillus	45
(18)	8	Smut	Curvularia	44

% pos: number (and percentage) of times individual mold was reactive in each group.
A (2010): Group A, including tests performed in or before 2010.
B (2015): Group B, including tests performed in 2014 and 2015.
Italic: outliers (incidence higher than average + STD).