Fungal air-spora inside the central library of Gorakhpur University

Tripathi, R. N.

doi:10.1007/bf00184755

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“…The major contributors to both indoor and outdoor air were similar. This confirms our previous observation (Singh et al, 1990) and those of others (Tripathi, 1987;Tilak and Pillai, 1988).…”

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Fungal spores are an important component of library air

Ganguli¹,

Singh

1995

Aerobiologia

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The airborne fungal spore types were studied in different libraries in Delhi, using an Andersen sampler and a Burkard personal sampler, for culturable and non-culturable fungi respectively. The concentration inside the libraries, before and after the agitation of books, were compared with outside air. The major contributors to the library air are Cladosporium, aspergiUi/penicillia, smuts and Alternaria, varying from 50 to 14%. Some fungi (Cladosporium, Alternaria, smut, Penicillium chrysogenum and nigricans) showed seasonal occurrence, corresponding to their occurrence in the extramural environment. Aspergilli/penicillia, Drechslera, Curvularia and Aspergillusflavus had a significantly higher concentration (P < 0.01) inside the library, and recorded a significant increase in concentration after agitation of books. Air-conditioned libraries have low fungal spore concentrations, as compared to naturally ventilated libraries.

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“…The major contributors to both indoor and outdoor air were similar. This confirms our previous observation (Singh et al, 1990) and those of others (Tripathi, 1987;Tilak and Pillai, 1988).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 95%

Fungal spores are an important component of library air

Ganguli¹,

Singh

1995

Aerobiologia

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“…Many cellulose decomposing fungi such as Allernaria, Monilia, Fusarium, Chaetomiulll, Myrolhecilll11, Torula, Slachybolrys, Cladosporium, Paecilomyces, RILizopus and Epicoccum were also reported from a library of Aurangabad (Tilak & Saibaba, 1984). The high prevalence of Cladosporiwn, Penicillium and Alternaria inside libraries are also reported by Tripathi (1987), Tilak and Pillai (1988) and Singh el ai., (1990) Species of Aspergillus, Penicillium and Cladosporium were in great abundance in the indoor air of library of Madras University (Nadimuthu & Vittal, 1995). The agitation of books causes marked increase in the concentration of fungal spores (Burge el al., 1978;Singh et ai., 1990;Vittal & Glory, 1985).…”

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Some biodeteriorating air-borne fungi in and around Lucknow, India

Khandelwal¹,

Tewary²,

Misra³

et al. 2002

JPS

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The paper presents the result of qualitative and quantitative analyses of mycoflora in the air of Lucknow city and adjoining areas. Burkard slide sampler and Andersen two-stage volumetric samplers were employed for air sampling at forty places of Lucknow at different times of the year from January 1997 to February 1998. As many as thirty-five types of fungal spores and twenty-nine types of fungal colonies were registered. It has been envisaged that certain fungi such as Alternaria, Aspergillus, Chaetomium, Cladosporium, Curvularia, Diplodia, Epicoccum, Fusarium, Nigrospora, Penicillium. Rhizopus, Torula, Trichoderma, Trichothecium, etc., prevalent in the air are associated with the biodeterioration of cultural properties.

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“…Among these, 6 species of 2 genera belong to zygomycotina, 2 species of 1 genera belong to ascomycotinaand 67 species of 20 genera belong to deuteromycotina were isolated and identified from indoor and outdoors respectively. Among the total number of identified fungal species, Aspergillus was represented by 15 Based on comparative analysis of the occurrence of dominant fungal species with their contribution in indoor and outdoorof the schools, Cladosporiumcladosporieds (16.38%) contributed maximum in both indoor and outdoor followed by Alternariaalternata (9.65%) and Cladosporiumherbarum (8.81%). Data of the annual occurrence revealed that Cladosporiumcladosporieds was the highest with (17.40%) in indoors and (15.31%) in outdoors, and Alternariaalternata recorded higher in indoor (11.56%) than outdoor (7.65%).…”

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“…Agashe 14,15 . Aspergillusniger and Aspergillusfumigatus cause respiratory infection leading to bronchopulmonary aspergillosis 16,17 .…”

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confidence: 99%