Determining the fungal diversity within an environment is a method utilized in occupational health studies to identify health hazards. This protocol describes DNA extraction from occupational air samples for amplification and sequencing of fungal ITS regions. This approach detects many fungal species that can be overlooked by traditional assessment methods.
Lemons, A. R., Lindsley, W. G., Green, B. J. Collection and Extraction of Occupational Air Samples for Analysis of Fungal DNA. J. Vis. Exp. (135), e56730, doi:10.3791/56730 (2018).