Studies on Environmental Monitoring of Aeromicroflora in a Hospital at Kalyani, West Bengal, India

Dipak Paul; Karabi Biswas; Chandan Sengupta; Sankar Narayan Sinha

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Studies on Environmental Monitoring of Aeromicroflora in a Hospital at Kalyani, West Bengal, India

Dipak Paul, Karabi Biswas, Chandan Sengupta, Sankar Narayan Sinha

Published in Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology (Volume 1, Issue 3)

Received: 11 September 2015 Accepted: 22 September 2015 Published: 28 September 2015

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Abstract

A qualitative and quantitative study of indoor air in a hospital at Kalyani, West Bengal, India was carried out. For the enumeration of bacteria and fungi, samples were collected using the settle plate method. This study focuses to assess the microbial population of indoor air of different wards of the hospital and in different sampling time. The highest bacterial and fungal population was recorded in the evening time between 5 pm and 6 pm compared to the morning. The microbial flora isolated included four genera each of bacteria and fungi among which are Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella sp, Aspergillus sp, Fusarium sp, Penicillium sp and Candida sp. The occurrence of microorganisms was highest in the general and female wards and lowest in the operation theatre.

Published in	Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology (Volume 1, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.fem.20150103.13
Page(s)	47-50
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Aeromicroflora, Environmental Monitoring, Air pollution

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Dipak Paul, Karabi Biswas, Chandan Sengupta, Sankar Narayan Sinha. (2015). Studies on Environmental Monitoring of Aeromicroflora in a Hospital at Kalyani, West Bengal, India. Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology, 1(3), 47-50. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.fem.20150103.13

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Dipak Paul

Environmental Microbiology Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India
Karabi Biswas

Environmental Microbiology Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India
Chandan Sengupta

Environmental Microbiology Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India
Sankar Narayan Sinha

Environmental Microbiology Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

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