title: Measurement of air contamination in different wards of public sector hospital, Sukkur.
abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate and assess the index of bacterial contamination in different wards of the Public Sector Hospital of Sukkur (Teaching) Pakistan; whether or not the air contamination was statistically different from the acceptable level using active and passive sampling. In addition to this main hypothesis, other investigations included: occurrence of the most common bacteria, whether or not the bacterial contamination in the wards was a persistent problem and identification of the effective antibiotics against the indentified bacteria. The evidence sought based on the One Sample T test suggests that there is a (statistically) significant difference between the observed (higher) than the acceptance level (p<0.01), the result based on One-Way ANOVA suggests that the contamination problem was persistent as there was no significant difference among observed contamination of all three visits at (p>0.01) and the result of antibiotic susceptibility test highlights sensitivity and resistance level of antibiotics for the indentified bacteria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Badaruddin AllahDino
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Memon
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Gul Hassan
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Bhutto
authors.affiliation: Marketing Department, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Wajid Hussain
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Rizvi
mesh_terms: D000391:Air Microbiology; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001419:Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003906:Developing Countries; D052978:Disk Diffusion Antimicrobial Tests; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D006757:Hospital Units; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D010154:Pakistan; D010362:Patients' Rooms; D018570:Risk Assessment