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Risk of microbes in fitness centre
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THEIVA R, N.P. MURALIDHARAN
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Fitness centre is a place of public gathering in a small, crossed sometimes air conditioned area. The probability of survival of microbes is very high in this environment. This will affect the people utilising the facility. There is no proper education in this sector to maintain a clean environment. This study is done to evaluate the real conditions of the fitness centre with regard to the safety standards.In this study 2 fitness centres were selected and samples were collected at a period of 3 days interval. Samples were collected with moisturized swab and transported to the microbiology lab immediately.The swabs were processed to identify the total bacteria count on different sites.The swabs were inoculated into BHI media which is an enriched media.The plates were examined after 24 hours inoculating at 37°C.The total Count was noted and the predominant organism seen was identified by standard methods.This study explored the bacterial loads and diversity associated With different equipment services in fitness centres using cultural-based methods. A high prevalence of bacillus genus was observed .There were also considerable amounts of staphylococcus,streptococcus .Even enterococcus was also present in a few cultures.Though most of the bacteria isolated are common in the environment i.e.,the body flora is also found in the swabs collected.Bacillus is widely present in the sample but it is insignificant there, but the presence of high numbers of staphylococcal colonies, enterococcus and streptococcus indicates the risk of the infection transmission among the trainee.
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Fitness; Awareness; Trainee; Infection
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