Assessment of the Airborne Fungi in Rainy Season from some Schools of Amravati City.
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Indoor and outdoor school environment, fungal distributionAbstract
Fungi are widely spread and play a vital role in human everyday life. The microflora of any habitat varies with host type, seasonal variations in climatic conditions and relations among them. Thus, the diversity of microflora differs from time to time and place to place. Fungi had a capacity to grow on mostly all natural and synthetic materials, especially if they are wet or hygroscopic. In this study the fungal contribution in indoor environment of threeschools of Shivaji Education Society Amravati was carried out during rainy season. For this study, settle plate method was used for the isolation of fungi. Sampling site-1 were isolated highest number of fungi (2737 cfu/m3), the second number highest was isolated from Sampling site -2 (2642 cfu/m3) & Sampling site -3 (2406 cfu/m3) were found to be least in number. During the investigation period of rainy season. Aspergillus sp., Alternaria sp., Cladosporium sp, Penicillium sp. prominently isolated from school.
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