Tag: door handles

New papers on microbiology of the built environment, June 12, 2016

By Elisabeth Bik   Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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Microbes in the house Fungal and bacterial growth in floor dust at elevated relative humidity levels — Karen C. Dannemiller — Indoor Air ($6 to rent, $38 to own) Under sustained, elevated building moisture conditions, bacterial and fungal growth occurs. The goal of this study was to characterize microbial growth in floor dust at variable …

Microbial biogeography of a university campus

By David Coil   Posted in Infectious Diseases Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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Saw this paper by Ashley Rose and Josh Neufeld, “Microbial biogeography of a university campus” and just had to check it out.  Basically the authors conduced a survey of door handles across 65 buildings and three time points on the Waterloo campus.  What I think it most interesting about their results is the finding that …