World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

ISOLATION OF DIFFERENT MICROORGANISMS FROM HOSPITAL SITES

Shivani Deshmukh, Shazia Mansoor, Asha Agarwal, Rupa Guha Nandi and N. Ganesh*

ABSTRACT

Microorganisms are present abundantly on earth’s atmosphere as particle or bacteria, fungi, lichen and algal cell. The concentration and composition of these particles are generally related to man’s activities and atmosphere. Atmospheric pollution is one of the most common problems of our era. This pollution has now reached an advance level that possesses threat to the health and wellbeing of the people. The increase pollution is becoming threat to human population. The presence of micro-organisms in environment may be beneficial and sometimes can be harmful, especially hospital microflora may cause harm to human beings and may leads to number of diseases and in immunocompromised patients leading to nosocomial infections. In the present study nine different common bacterial species and 2 fungal species were isolated from Department of Research, Jawaharlal Nehru Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.

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