Micro-organisms (bacteria and fungi) in buildings

Abstract

The main aim of this thesis is to get familiar with basic knowledge about fungi and bacteria, also to provide information about them, its sources and causes, its health effect, methods of its measure-ment and prevention and also about its critical mass concentration in the indoor air. Methods that were used are literature studies and measurements at Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences premises. In the result there are analyses of the condition that can affect on micro-organisms growing in build-ings.