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Hospital indoor air microbial quality: Importance and monitoring

Sayan Bhattacharyya, Asim Sarfraz and Nitesh Jaiswal

Indoor microbial air flora is a cause of tremendous health concern in developing countries. A number of allergic and infective illnesses are linked to poor microbiological quality of indoor air in the hospital, like Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, sick building syndrome and pneumonia. This air quality needs to be assessed by one or more of many standard methods available, old and new, and is very important to be studied and researched. Our article highlights these issues by literature search in the appropriate field