What kind of tips would you like to receive? Links to the web sites, international organisations, information about courses/degree, books which are worth of recommendation...? Also are you interested in pollen or fungal spores? Allergy or plant pathology?

Thanx a lot for the early response.Actually I have to work with Air-borne bacteria.So please give suggestions regarding that.

I have just started phd studies and i am focused on allergenic fungal spores in the air, so in this case I can't help you too much. I guess you will need to use portable Burkard trap, or Samplair K1 or any other air sampler for an indoor monitoring.

Hi Sweta,

just find an article which may be useful for you:

Bourdillon, RB, Lidwell, OM & Thomas, JC (1941). A slit sampler for collecting and counting air-borne bacteria. J. Hyg. Camb., 41, 197-224.

It is very old one, but you will have to go back to the origin of this kind of research,

Regards!

Hi Sweta-

I believe that you are focusing on the outdoor study in and around Jharia area. The extramural bacteriological study along with monitoring of some important a biological entities such as dust, gases, temperature, humidity etc. and their co-relation if any will yield some good information. The outcome is of applied aspect. Tryptic Soy Agar (TSA) is a good overall media for the isolation of environmental bacteria. Anderson Air sampler with TSA can be use for qualitative as well as quantitative estimation of air-borne bacteria. However, the identification of environmental bacteria is little tricky and may requires additional biochemical tests, specialty/selective microbiological media, and other modern techniques such as PCR etc. beside gram staining techniques.

I encourage you to keep this good work going....

Rajiv

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Dear all

I suggest to visitwww. wao.com and get Manual for sampling airborne allergens whwre varios samplers and techniques are described. The challenge lies in selection of suitable media and identification . Above all depends on the exact objective of the work which is not clear.

Thnx all.

You can contact to Dr. Sudhir Krishna Bharti (CFRI lab). He is working in the same domain. 

Thnx.I am in contact with him at CFRI,Dhanbad.