Authors : Madhuri Bhonde, Rupali Chaudhary, Surekha Kalkar
Page Nos : 213-218
Description :
Studies on the aerobiology of indoor environments are gaining importance now-a days as exposure to these indoor areas causes serious allergic problems. Indoor air quality decreases because of the pollution. Air monitoring is useful to detect the indoor and outdoor aerospora. Indoor environment which is rich in biocomponents and fungal spores. Fungal spores are dominated in number as compared to other biocomponents. Aeromycologists were concentrating on survey of indoor environment and this analysis has helped to focus attention on the adverse effect of fungal spores as these are impacted on various substrates. This paper reviews concentration of fungal spores from indoor air on culture media like Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) for consecutive two years September 2010 to August 2012 from University Library at Nagpur. Total 21 species belonged to 15 genera were observed on PDA. A total of 4678 fungal colonies were recorded of which 2333 colonies (49.87%) were isolated during 1st year and 2345 colonies (50.12%) were isolated in the 2nd year. 21 identified species of fungi accounted along with single unidentified group. Aspergillus, Cladosporium, Curvularia, Alternaria, Helminthosporium, Penicillium, Nigrospora, Rhizopus, Mucor and Cercospora were the dominant fungal colonies. The occurrence of fungal spores was correlated with weather parameters. An attempt was made to forecast atmospheric fungal concentration in library environment.
