Abstract

PREVALENCE OF MICROBIAL FLORA IN LABORATORY CONDITIONS

Jaya Puri, AbdulBasit Shaikh, Laxmikant H. Kamble, Umesh Pravin Dhuldhaj*,

Abstract

In common laboratory conditions several microbial floras are present. Basal culture conditions allow the growth of unknown and unwanted microbes in the same environment. The experiment on targeted microbes and methods can be useless if one or more microbes are present in the environment and easily can contaminate your growth media. We observed dominant microbial flora in the air environment of laboratory conditions, for sterile environment, we need to have often fumigation. The hygiene maintenance of laboratory is very important to avoid microbial contaminations. Along with routine cleaning and wiping, fumigations are essential once in a week or once in a month, to maintain standard laboratory conditions. The microbes present in the environment are fast growing such as Aspergillus or it can be viable for long time such spores of actinomycetes. Sometimes contamination can be arising because of the spores of previous experiments or molds which growing on exposed carbonaceous material and after maturation release their spores in the environment.

Keywords: Microbial flora, Contaminants, Laboratory conditions.