Assessment of Airborne Bacterial and Fungal Communities in Selected Areas of Teaching Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Table 1

Levels of total airborne microbial load in each sampling site (cells × 10⁶ /m²).

Sampling Sites	9.00 am–10.00 am	12.00 noon–1.00 pm	2.00 pm–3.00 pm	5.00 pm–6.00 pm	Mean value in each site ± SD (whole sampling period)
Outpatients Department	8.89	8.19	10.5	8.49	9.01 ± 1.01
Respiratory Diseases Unit–Female Ward	7.43	4.68	8.42	5.61	6.54 ± 1.70
Respiratory Diseases Unit–Male Ward	3.86	3.63	6.14	6.02	4.91 ± 1.35
Respiratory Diseases Unit–Staff Room	6.73	5.32	9.94	6.49	7.12 ± 1.98
Respiratory Diseases Unit–Bronchoscopy Unit	4.50	3.57	9.24	5.44	5.69 ± 2.49
Operating Theatre in Obstetrics/Gynecology Department	3.51	4.21	7.19	4.97	4.97 ± 1.60
Surgical Intensive Care Unit	4.21	2.11	5.85	3.39	3.89 ± 1.57
Control	5.03	4.21	6.61	5.32	5.29 ± 0.99