Paper can transfer bacteria too – hand to paper and back again

We recently wrote about moldy documents in French archives and a higher incidence of asthma among workers who handled documents than others working in the same spaces but not handling them. See our previous post: “Hands off the moldy docs (for your own good?)” Now we find researchers reported that bacteria can also be transferred …

A little known issue in indoor microbiology: degradation of paper & risks to paper heritage #microBEnet

Though much of the work on microbiology of the built environment focuses on health in some way, there are other reasons to be interested in “Who are the microbes in your neighborhood.”  One of them is discussed in this paper:  Trends in Microbiology : Scripta manent? Assessing microbial risk to paper heritage. Microbes in the …