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

Table 2

Levels of culturable airborne microbial load in each sampling site (cfu × 10⁴/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	8.46	10.8	7.82	7.91	8.76 ± 1.41
Respiratory Diseases Unit–Female Ward	3.77	3.58	2.99	1.83	3.04 ± 0.87
Respiratory Diseases Unit–Male Ward	1.84	3.47	1.53	2.64	2.37 ± 0.87
Respiratory Diseases Unit–Staff Room	0.607	1.32	0.553	0.456	0.73 ± 0.39
Respiratory Diseases Unit–Bronchoscopy Unit	1.66	2.16	0.684	0.243	1.19 ± 0.88
Operating Theatre in Obstetrics/Gynecology Department	0.505	1.42	1.37	1.66	1.24 ± 0.50
Surgical Intensive Care Unit	0.263	1.78	0.351	0.251	0.66 ± 0.74
Control	0.363	0.398	0.874	0.909	0.63 ± 0.29