Mold contamination in a controlled hospital environment: a 3-year surveillance in southern Italy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Environmental monitoring of airborne filamentous fungi is necessary to reduce fungal concentrations in operating theaters and in controlled environments, and to prevent infections. The present study reports results of a surveillance of filamentous fungi carried out on samples from air and surfaces in operating theaters and controlled environments in an Italian university hospital.

Methods

Sampling was performed between January 2010 and December 2012 in 32 operating theaters and five departments with high-risk patients. Indoor air specimens were sampled using a microbiological air sampler; Rodac contact plates were used for surface sampling. Fungal isolates were identified at the level of genera and species.

Results

Sixty-one samples (61/465; 13.1%) were pos

SUBMITTER: Caggiano G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4236478 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature