Broad Diversity of Fungi in Hospital Water

Table 1

Results of analysis stratified by the origin of the sample.

Hospital sector	Number of samples		Number of positive samples				Number of samples with free chlorine residual within the limits
			Filamentous		Yeasts
	T	P	T	P	T	P	T	P
Haemodialysis sector (ground floor)	7	1	2	0	1	0	7	1
Surgical centre (1^st floor)	6	2	4	1	0	0	6	0
Infectious diseases department (2^nd floor)	6	2	2	2	4	1	4	0
Oncology department (3^rd floor)	13	3	5	1	1	2	13	0
Pediatrics department (4^th floor)	7	1	4	0	2	0	7	0
Cardiology department (5^th floor)	6	2	2	0	1	0	6	0
Postoperative room (6^th floor)	6	2	5	0	1	0	6	0
Intensive care (7^th floor)	15	1	7	0	1	0	14	0
Transplant unit (8^th floor)	8	0	7	0	1	0	8	0
Total	74	14	38	4	12	3	71	1

T: tap water; P: purifiers.