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Study of aerial microbial flora of different Departments of a Tertiary care Hospital in Eastern India

Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Microbiology, AIIMS, Patna-801505, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Medical Sci., Volume 3, Issue (10), Pages 11-12, October,28 (2015)

Abstract

Microbial bacterial and fungal flora can be a source of numerous allergic and infective illnesses like skin infections, respiratory tract infection and others. Patients attending Outpatient department as well as other specialties are hence at risk of acquiring these infections, and it is important to measure and monitor the microbial bio-load of ambient air of these places. We here present our observation regarding this, from our tertiary care hospital.

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