FIGURE 1.

Box whisker plots representing the live bacterial cell numbers per m3 of air from (A) Mubarak Al‐Kabeer Hospital (MKH); (B) Sheikh Jaber Hospital (SJH); (C) Al‐Amiri Hospital (AMH); (D) Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and (E) Outdoor aerosol (control sample). RNA‐based cell counts (copies per m3 of air) obtained through quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) are plotted on the Y‐axis