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Aeromycoflora of Animal Rearing Houses of Bangalore, India

R. Pavan

Microbiology Research Journal International · pp. 395–402 · Published 24 Apr 2015

10.9734/BMRJ/2015/16698

Abstract

The present study was carried out to investigate the indoor and outdoor airborne fungi in the animal rearing houses viz., rabbit house, cow shed, poultry farm and swine house in Hessaraghatta village, Bangalore city was carried out by Andersen two stage sampler using an Malt Extract Agar (MEA) media were collected fortnightly from January 2011 to December 2011. In our study, fungal spores are ubiquitous and quite dominant in the indoors as against the outdoor environments, a total of 97335.13 CFU/m3 was observed from indoor compared to outdoor 25492.11 CFU/m3 airborne fungi recorded. The most common fungal spores in indoor environment were Cladosporium herbarum, Cladosporium sp., C. macrocarpum, C. cladosporioides, Fusarium sp., Aspergillus sp., Aspergillus niger and Penicillium species, Whereas in outdoor Alternaria sp., Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus sp., Cladosporium herbarum, Cladosporium sp., C. macrocarpum, C. cladosporioides and Fusarium species were observed. The present study helped in preparation of fungal calendars for the region, which may useful for physician to identify the cause of fungal spores related problem affecting human health of animal rearing house workers.

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