Fungal levels in houses in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant evacuation zone after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Figures & data

Figure 1. Map of houses surveyed in the present study and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. ♦ shows the houses surveyed in the present study. ● shows Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Figure 2. Indoor and outdoor airborne fungal levels in houses in the evacuation zone determined in the summer (a) and winter (b).

Figure 3. Abundance ratios of indoor and outdoor airborne fungal levels in houses in the evacuation zone determined in the summer (a) and winter (b).

Figure 4. Surface fungal levels at three indoor locations in houses in the evacuation zone determined in the summer (a) and winter (b).

Figure 5. Abundance ratios of surface fungal levels at two indoor locations in houses in the evacuation zone determined in the summer (a) and winter (b).

Table 1. Ochratoxin productivity of Aspergillus section Circumdati isolates from air in the summer.

Strain	OTA (µg/g)^a	OTB (µg/g)^a	Origin
FCG979	4100	1000	House A, living room
FCG980	86	13	House A, living room
FCG981	1200	330	House A, living room
FCG984	N.D.^b	N.D.	House B, living room
FCG985	900	13	House B, living room
FCG982	1400	19	House C, living room
FCG983	670	23	House C, living room
FCG986	430	41	House F, living room
FCG987	N.D.	N.D.	House F, living room

^aOchratoxin (OTA) μg per gram barley as a substrate.

^bN.D. = not detected. The limits of quantification for OTA and OTB were 33 and 9 µg/g, respectively.