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Turn-Around Time, Pricing, Conditions and Restrictions

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:24:58 GMT

Turn-Around Time applies to microbiology samples only. BioIdea is working around the clock to serve you. We guarantee the lowest price in Texas in a 3-6 hour same night turn-around! (see conditions and restrictions) Our service is 7 days a week! PhD mycologist is reading your samples ! And your testing could come with an interpretation report ! (see a sample) Turn-around time For Spore trap air cassettes, Direct exam samples: Turn-around time for mold testing is usually 3-6 hours same night in most cases (i.e. BioIdea will report to you at night around 8:00 -10:30 pm, please call Jay if you are submitting rush samples. For Water samples: Standard 24-28 hours. For culture plate culturable molds: Standard 5-7 days. Please drop your samples @ the Drop Box at 615 Mosman Ct., Houston, TX 77094 (on I-10 and Baker Rd between Barker-Cypress and Fry Rd, close to the small post office). Call Jay @ 832-495-5301 (cell), 281-646-9977 (Home) you are going to drop...

Sample Submission and Rental & Supplies

Sun, 03 May 2009 17:18:26 GMT

BioIdea currently accept mold samples for testing in air cassettes, direct exam samples and culturable mold medium plates, as well as drinking water samples.

Mold and Water Sample Submission form;

BioIdea currently provides Sampling Equipment Rental and Sampling Supplies.

Equipment Rental and Sampling Supplies form;

BioIdea also provides specialty mushroom spawns (please see the mushroom section), as well as provides environmental mold strains isolated from indoor and outdoor environment.

Purchase specialty mushroom spawn form;
For mushromm cultivation technology transfor or consultation (please inquire support@bioidea.net )
Purchase environmental mold strains (please email support@bioidea.net for listing, prices, before place order).

Services -- Microbiology Testing

Fri, 01 May 2009 02:33:12 GMT

Environmental Microbiology Testing We guarantee the lowest price in Texas in a 3-6 hour same night turn-around! (see conditions and restrictions) Our service is 7 days a week! PhD mycologist is reading your samples ! And your testing could come with an interpretation report ! (see a sample) Mold Testing Air Cassettes (Spore Trap): M11 Air-O-Cell, (Zefon); M12 Bio-Cell (GrafTech); M13 VersaTrap (SKC) M14 Cyclex-D (EMS); M15 Micro5 (EMS); M19 Customer defined cassette; Surface Materials: M21 Direct exam (Tape samples); M22 Direct exam (Bulk samples); M23 Direct exam (Swab samples); Live Cultures on Medium Plates: M31 EMS E6 or Anderson impactors (using a vacuum); M32 Stationary plates (without using a vacuum); M33 Derived from Swabs, Tapes, and Bulk samples; M34 Aspergillus species determination (culture only); M35 Penicillim species determination (culture only); M36 Stachybotrys species determination (culture only); ...

How to Submit Your Samples?

Fri, 01 May 2009 02:26:02 GMT

BioIdea is working 7 days a week to serve you. You can submit your samples with this COC /Sample submission form ( Fillable mold and drinking water submission form) at any time during the day and evening to the Drop Box at 615 Mosman Ct., Houston, TX 77094 (on south side of I-10 between Barker-Cypress and Fry Rd). Click the following address to display the map. BioIdea 615 Mosman Ct., Houston, TX 77094. (Courtsy of MapQuest) For directions: From San Antonio travel eastward to Houston: please exit 747B Greenhouse Rd, once pass the Greenhouse Rd on feeder road of I-10, go only about 200 yards, turn right onto Baker Rd, pass the Post Office, pass a STOP sign, pass the water fountains, turn left to Dural Rd, find the 2nd Cul-de-Sac, Mosman Ct, go to 615 Mosman Ct. From Houston travelling westward: please exit 747B Greenhouse Rd, make a U-turn at Greenhouse Rd, go only about 200 yards, then go as the above described. BioIdea is Texas State...

Houston Mold Testing, Texas Mold Testing for Toxic Molds, Black Molds, etc.

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:05:48 GMT

BioIdea for Houston Mold Test, Houston Mold Testing, Texas Mold Test, Texas Mold Testing. BioIdea, a biological company, is a Katy Houston based small company (serving Greater Houston area, Katy, etc), intended to provide environmental mold testing, including testing of Sick-Home Syndrome agent Stachybotrys sp., and other human opportunistic pathogenic molds (such as Aspergillus, Mucor, Fusarium etc), pathogenic yeasts (such as Cryptococcus, Candida), allergenic molds, as well as testing drinking water, and bacteria, and more to come. For your mold testing, and drinking water testing, please click buttons in the left column. We guarantee the lowest price in Texas in a 3-6 hour same night turn-around! (see conditions and restrictions) Our service is 7 days a week! PhD mycologist is reading your samples ! And your testing could come with an interpretation report ! (see a sample) BioIdea also provides technology consultation in transferring hands-on...

Contact Us

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:13:04 GMT

You may contact us with any of the following:

Click here to open The Email Box
Use your own email account and write to support@bioidea.net
Call Jay 832-495-5301 (cell phone), or 281-646-9977 (leave a message).

BioIdea is Texas State Licensed, License No. LAB1007.

Black Mold Stachybotrys

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:10:10 GMT

We guarantee the lowest price in Texas in a 3-6 hour same night turn-around! (see conditions and restrictions) Our service is 7 days a week! PhD mycologist is reading your samples ! And your testing could come with an interpretation report ! (see a sample) This article is also available on the Blog on Mold, Environment and Health @ http://bioideamold.blogspot.com/ Black Mold Stachybotrys The really black Black Mold Stachybotrys, or so-called Sick Home Syndrome mold Stachybotrys is the biggest fear in the Indoor Air Quality industry. It is a cellulolytic saprophyte with a worldwide distribution and is frequently recovered in water-damaged buildings. This black mold aroused significant notification when infants in Cleveland, Ohio, died of pulmonary hemorrhage after lived in Stachybotrys infested houses. From the authoritative book Atlas of clinical Fungi (de Hoog et al., 2000, CBS Netherland), this mold is not described but referred to as a toxigenic fungus,...

Mycoses - What Diseases Molds Can Cause?

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:09:13 GMT

We guarantee the lowest price in Texas in a 3-6 hour same night turn-around! (see conditions and restrictions) Our service is 7 days a week! PhD mycologist is reading your samples ! And your testing could come with an interpretation report ! (see a sample) There are four categories of fungal infections (mycosis), i.e. Superficial mycosis (without tissue response), Mucocutaneous mycosis (skin, eyes, sinuses, oropharynx, external ears, vagina), Subcutaneous mycosis, and Deep organ mycosis. Recently, there is an increase of opportunistic, systemic mycoses in immunocompromised patients. The patients may have been impaired as a result of the development of neoplasia, leukemia, metabolic diseases (diabetes mellitus), drug therapy (cytostatics, antibiotics, corticosteroids), intravenous drug abuse or infections (AIDS). Piedra mold on a hair shaft (Ref: doctorfungus.org) Superficial Mycoses (human or animal body, skin surface, such as hair or lipids, without provoking any...

Comments or Suggestions

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:25:32 GMT

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What are Molds, Fungi, Mushrooms and Yeasts?

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:18:49 GMT

Molds are a group of fungi called "Hyphomycetes", which are chracterized with having filamentous hyphae, and producing airborne spores or conidia (asexual propagules). In nature, molds are decomposers to recycle nature's organic wastes. In medicine, they are the producers of antibiotics.

Fungi are a glomeration of organisms in a separate taxanomic kingdom, in which they differ from Monera (Bacteria), Protista (single-cell eucaryotes mostly), Plants and Animals. Fungi are eucaryotes (with true nuclei in cells) chracterized with having filamentous hyphae, or having yeast forms, obtaining nutrition as decomposers. (For fugal characters, see Facts about Fungi).

Mushrooms are another goup of fungi, which are mainly Basidiomycetes and partially Ascomycetes, both of which share a same feature --having a macroscopic "Fruiting-body, a Mushroom". Fruiting-body is the reproductive organ of the fungus, from which sexual spores are produced and then dispersed either by air or by insects or other animals. All mushrooms are fungi, but only small proportions are edible. It requires an experienced knowledge to know which mushroom is edible, some mushrooms are very deadly.

Agaricus sp. possibly A. campestris, collected from lawn of Second Baptist Church in Katy, Houston in New Year's Day 2009. Cooked and tasted delicious (Warning: Eating wild mushrooms without knowledge poses great danger).

Yeasts are fungi, which don't have filamentous hyphae, but in oval or elliptical shapes visible under a microscope. Some fungi could take both the shapes of filamentous or yeast-like, under different conditions, thus those fungi are called "Dimorphic".

BioIdea is Texas State Licensed, License No. LAB1007