Hello, depends from storage conditions and antibiotics or inhibitors content in blood sample, the molds grow can variate. Provide more info for more reliable answer.

10 minutes no antib or inhibitors

At what temperature?

Air conditioning temperature 18 to 20 maybe

Hello, within 10min nothing happened if you are working in class II laminar flow cabinet. Just in room if you care about microbiological sterility also sterility of air, no dust no wind so also 10min no problem.

For safety you can check the condition in your working area by sedimentation method to check the total count of microorganisms as well as moulds in working rooms. This picture will allow you to understand the risk like measure the risk of possible contamination of samples.

Great thanks....

Yes the room has mold on the wall

Dear Dr.Ciro,

If the wall of your laboratory room has moulds, I advise you to please do decontamination of the laboratory with formalin solution and potassium permanganate crystal.This is a very effective method, which we were doing in our Medical Mycology laboratory every week. We were doing fumigation in the evening of every Saturday so that we start our work on Monday.

I hope your problem of contamination of your clinical samples will be solved.

With kind regards,

Prof.Dr.Mahendra Pal

Founder Director of Narayan Consultancy

Thanks a lot for the advices though it’s not our lab...when we work with samples in humid area it’s always a problem