Poor indoor air quality triggered by microbiological mycotoxins is potentially harmful to
human health. Patients and healthcare workers in hospital environment are vulnerable to …

Exposure to bioaerosols in the air of hospitals is associated with a wide range of adverse
health effects due to the presence of airborne microorganisms. Intensity and type of health …

Operating rooms (ORs) in hospitals are sensitive wards because patients can get infections.
This work aimed to characterize the type and concentration of bioaerosols in nine ORs of an …

Spacecraft hardware and assembly cleanroom surfaces (233 m2 in total) were sampled,
total genomic DNA was extracted, hypervariable regions of the 16S rRNA gene (bacteria …

Hospital environments contain different types of microorganisms. Airborne fungi are one of
these microbes and the major source of hospital indoor contamination that will be able to …

This study was aimed to investigate the types and number of bacterial and fungal
bioaerosols in indoor air of hospitals according to the type of wards and operating theaters …

The novel SARS-CoV-2 outbreak was declared as pandemic by the World Health
Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. Understanding the airborne route of SARS-CoV-2 …

Purpose: Thus, the purpose of this systematic review was to determine the degree of
contamination present on OTs and to evaluate the methodological quality of this evidence …

Background: Microbial contamination of the Operating Theatre (OT) had continued to
increase the prevalence of nosocomial infections. Aim: This study was conducted to assess …

This study aims to assess the levels and size distribution of airborne bacteria and fungi in
two different types of orthopaedic theatres (conventionally ventilated and laminar flow), a …