Table 5.

Bioaerosol (Bacteria and Fungi) and their concentrations in various indoor environments across the world.

Country	Sampling site	Sampling technique	Enumeration technique	Bacterial conc. cfu/m3			Fungal conc. cfu/m3			Reference
				Min.	Max.	Dominant genus	Min.	Max.	Dominant genus
Benin City, Nigeria	Hospital	Settled plate	Cultivation microscopy and biochemical identification	15	52	Staphylococcus Escherichia Pseudomonas Proteus Klebsiella	10	53	Aspergillus Penicillum Mucor Fusarium	Ekhaise et al. (2008)
Hamedan, Iran	Hospital	Filtration method	Cultivation microscopy	7.8	24.3	Staphylococci Bacillus Micrococcus Staphylococcus	3.3	34.4	Aspergillus Cladosporium Penicillium	Hoseinzadeh et al. (2013)
Warsaw, Poland	Office (Workplaces)	Six stage Anderson sampler Single stage MAS sampler Button personal sampler	Cultivation microscopy and biochemical identification	14	494	Bacillus Micrococcus Staphylococcus	0	176	Aspergillus Cladosporium Penicillium Acremonium	Gołofit-Szymczak and Górny (2010)
Ankara, Turkey	Office	Anderson sampler	Cultivation automatic counter microscopy	44	284	Bacillus Micrococcus Staphylococcus	18	274	Aspergillus Cladosporium Penicillium Ulocladium	Mentese et al. (2009)
Edirne City, Turkey	Child day care centre	Gravitational settling	Cultivation microscopy	256	545	Staphylococci Bacillus Micrococcus Staphylococcus Corneybacterium	ND	ND	ND	Aydogdu et al. (2010)
Ankara, Turkey	Primary school	Anderson sampler	Cultivation automatic counter microscopy	822	1714	Bacillus Micrococcus Staphylococcus	9	53	Aspergillus Penicillium Phoma	Mentese et al. (2009)
Michigan	School (classroom)	Air-O-Cell	Microscopy	ND	ND	NA	0	6370	Alternaria Aspergillus Bipolaris Cladosporium Penicillium	Godwin and Batterman (2007)
Ankara, Turkey	Residence (living room)	Anderson sampler	Cultivation automatic counter microscopy	< LOD	1643	Micrococcus Staphylococcus	< LOD	1422	Aspergillus Cladosporium Penicillium	Mentese et al. (2009)
Central and Eastern European Countries	Residence	6-stage Andersen sampler, gravitational sampler,	Cultivation	88	4751	Aeromonas Bacillus Kocuria Micrococcus Nocardia Pseudomonas Staphylococcus	2	16,968	Aspergillus Penicillium	Gorny and Dutkiewicz (2002)
New Delhi, India	Library	BUCK Bio-Culture Pump	Microscopy	911	1460	Bacillus Streptococcus	2550	3110	Aspergillus Rhizopus	Ghosh et al. (2013)
Toruń, Poland	Archives	Six stage Anderson Sample	Cultivation microscopy and biochemical identification	123	712	Micrococcus Stephylococcu Arthrobacter	19	513	Penicillum Trichothecium Alternaria Aspergillus	Berent et al. (2011)
Singapore	Library (within occupied space)	Anderson six stage cascade impactor	Cultivation	727.0	3651.4	ND	34.2	64.4	ND	Goh et al. (2000)
Ankara, Turkey	Cafeteria	Anderson sampler	Cultivation automatic counter microscopy	62	3640	Bacillus Micrococcus Staphylococcus	18	548	Penicillum Aspergillus Mucor	Mentese et al. (2009)
Hong Kong	Restaurant	Filtration method	Cultivation microscopy and biochemical test	25	137	Bacillus Micrococcus Staphylococcus Brevundimonas Pseudomonas Moraxella Kocuria	ND	ND	ND	Chan et al. (2009)
New Delhi, India	Hostel Mess	Air-o-cell	Cultivation microscopy	44.66	89.40	ND	6.6	18.66	Fusarium Penicillum Aspergillus	Lal et al. (2013)
New Delhi, India	Laboratory (university)	Six stage cascade sampler	Cultivation microscopy	21 (Approx)	54 (Approx)	Bacillus Palisade Streptococcus Coccus	0	350	Aspergillus Rhizopus Alternaria	Srivastava et al. (2012)
Texas	Poultry industry	IOM inhalable sampler with gelatin membrane filters	Pyrosequencing (next generation sequencing)	74 cells/m3	2187 cells/m3	Staphylococcus Salinicoccus Lactobacillus	15 cells/m3	698 cells/m3	Sagenomella Aspergillus Penicillum Trematosphaeria	Nonnenmann et al. (2010a), Nonnenmann et al. (2010b)