Mold/Fungi

Diameter (microns)

Filter Selection (MERV)

Phialophora spp.

1.5

13

Exophiala jeanselmei

2

13

Acremonium spp.

2.5

9

Geomyces pannorum

3

7

Geomyces pannorum

3

Histoplasma capsulatum

3

Paecilomyces variotii

3

Wallemia sebi

3

Emericella nidulans

3.3

Penicillium spp.

3.3

Phoma spp

3.3

Aspergillis spp.

3.5

6 

Absidia corymbifera

3.8

Coccidioides immitis

4

Trichoderma spp.

4.1

Aureobasidium pullulans

5

Chaetomium globosum

5.5

Cryptococcus neoformans

5.5

Stachybotrys spp.

5.7

Eurotium spp.

5.8

Scopulariopsis spp.

6

Sporothrix schenckii           

6.5

Botrytis cinera

7

Mucor plumbeus

7.5

Mucor plumbeus

7.5

Rhizopus stolonifer

8

Cladosporium spp.

9