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Objective: Humans are constantly faced with fungal spores in nature. There is a chronic exposure in workplaces as indoor area. Allergy and toxicological symptoms are the main problems due to the prsence of higher fungal load in respiratory air. Atopic individuals are at a greater risk of sensitization by fungi.In this study, indoor air fungal fl ora of Pamukkale University Medical Faculty education staff rooms' whichwere localized in three different buildings, have been screened for the presence of allergic and toxicologic fungi.Dominant fungal fl ora in indoor air and allergic symptoms were evaluated.METHODS: Indoor air from March to May of 2009, 82 faculty members' study rooms used by 106academic staff, have been included in the study. Air Ideal Sampler (Bio-Merieux, France) was used for indoor air sampling. Cultivation and identifi cation have been done by conventional methods.RESULTS: Total 15194 fungi belonging to 18 different species have been isolated. Cladosporium sp as the most frequent (%38.4) and followed by Penicillium sp (%18.1) and Aspergillus sp (%9.2) gener have been isolated. No allergic symptoms have been correlated with air fungal load (P>0.05). Aspergillus sp. is higher in rooms windows facing the buildings in construction site (P0.05) between the fl oors of each storey in the building which has relatively high humidity and low temperature zygomycetes have been more cultivated from indoor air (P0.05)

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