Environmental Research

Reports summarize environmental research study results from Wroclaw University

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 5th, 2010

2010 DEC 5 -- According to recent research from Wroclaw, Poland, "The aim of this study was to test the air in a single hospital department for fungal contamination. The department included three fully protected rooms with laminar air flow, comprising a bone marrow transplant unit (BMTU) and eleven naturally ventilated patient rooms of a haematology unit (HAEMU)."

"Air samples were taken with an IDEAL air sampler (bioMerieux) on Sabouraud dextrose agar plates. The concentration of fungi in the air of the HEPA-filtered rooms of the BMTU ranged from 0-75 CFU/m(3). Penicillium and Cladosporium were dominant among the fungal biota in the whole department. Of...

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