پایش بار آلودگی قارچی هوا در دو بیمارستان آموزشی سنندج ایران

Background and Aim: Opportunistic fungal pathogens are known as a risk factor for increase of infection in health care workers and patients with immune deficiency. The aim of this study was to investigate the qualitative and quantitative airborne fungal contamination load in two sanandaj hospitals .Materials and Methods: In this cross sectional study, 112 biological samples from 15 different hospital wards was taken for 6 months by using the single stage Anderson sampler in sabouraud dextrose agar. Data were analyzed using descriptive and analytical tests in IBMSPSS V.21 and Air Fungal Contamination Load (AFCL) was calculated (cfu/m3) .Results: The average hospital AFCL in Besat and Tovhid was 21.13 and 14.51 cfu/m3 respectively. There were no statistically significant differences between AFCL and Relative Humidity (RH) in two hospital samples (p=0.495) according to independent t-test, while this difference in the average temperature in the hospital wards was significant (p .).0..0