Abstract

MONITORING OF INDOOR MICROBIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERN IN RURAL VS URBAN AREAS OF MEERUT REGION

Yashaswi, Neeraj Tandon*, Pooja Arya and Amar Abhishek

ABSTRACT

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average population spends nearly 90% of their time at indoors; consequently, the EPA considers indoor air pollution a high priority health risk. In this study, we compare indoor microbial distribution pattern in rural vs urban areas of meerut region. A Very intensive bacterial growth was observed in the kitchen sections compare to living room area of both urban and rural area. Moreover, an interesting result was also observed in kitchen section. The kitchen of urban area was significantly less contaminated than rural kitchen. Qualitative Analysis of Air in the all sampling sites Microbiological quality of indoor air is created not only by a total concentration of bacteria and fungi but by the presence of some particular microorganism species, which is very important for the human health. The predominant bacterial group and moulds isolated from investigated air samples were: Brevundimonas diminuta; Bacillus megaterium; Bacillus Subtilis; Bacillus ceres, Enterococcus, streptobacillus, Klebsiella pneumoniae; Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Citrobacter freundii and Alternaria spp., Mucur spp., Cladosporium spp., Aspergillus Spp. This result indicates that neither proper cleaning was happened nor air ventilation was maintained in both urban and rural areas.

Keywords: Microbial load; bacteria; fungi; air born microbes.