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KMID : 0377219840090010095
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Medical Journal of Chosun Univercity
1984 Volume.9 No. 1 p.95 ~ p.101
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A Study of Air-borne Fungi in the Hospital
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金聖均/Kim, Sung-kyun
崔圭哲/金炯均/Choi, Kyu-cherl/kim, Hyoung-kyun
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Abstract
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It is well known that non-pathogenic fungi can cause numerous diseases as well as pathogenic fungi. The fungi that are present in the air have been isolated incidentally in the culture. It is important to recognize the contaminants because the etiologic significance may be ascribod to such organisms in the state of immunological defect or unbalanced host-parasite relationship. So, it seems to be necessary to evaluate the geographical distribution and mycological characteristics of the air-borne fungi.
In this study, air-borne fungi were collected monthly in the 5 areas of Chosun University Hospital from March 1982 through February 1983. They were identified macroscopically and microscopically. The results obtained were as follows;
1. The toal number of cultured coloninies of 180 agar plates in 5 indoor areas was 1021 and the average number of each of the agar plates was 5.7 colonies.
2. With ragard to the sampling locations, there was no signific-ant difference in the number of colonies. However, the greatest number of colony was cultured in the out-patient department of derm-atology and the fewest in the operating room.
3. The cultured colonies at night were more tAan those during the day.
4. The identified fungi species were 19 in decreasing order of frequency as follows; Hormodendruin sp. (30%), Aspergillus sp. (12.1%), Penicillum sp. (12.0%), Alternaria sp. (10.1%), Monilia sp. (5.2%), Gliocladium Sp. (1.4%), Cladosporium sp. (0.8%), Syncephalastrum sp. (0.8%), Oospora sp. (0.3%), Mucor sp. (0.3%), Geotrichum sp. (0.3%), Scopulariopsis sp. (0.2%), Pullularia sp. (0.2%), Neurospora sp. (0.2%), Rdiz-pusosp. (0.2%), Stemphylium sp. (0.1%), Saccharomyces sp. (0.1%), Cephalosporium sp. (0.1%), and Fusarium sp. (0.1%).
5. From the observation of monthly fluctuation of the major fungi(I-lormodendrum, Asprgillus, Penicillium and Alternaria) the number of colonies increased markedly in June and decreased markedly in February. There was also interest an abrupt drop in July and August. Thus, there might be a relationship batween temperature, humidity and growth of air-borne fungi.
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