New papers on microbiology of the built environment, April 25, 2016

Recent papers about microbes and the built environment: Microbes in the house Fungal and Bacterial Communities in Indoor Dust Follow Different Environmental Determinants – Fabian Weikl – PLOS ONE (OA) (…) we wanted to identify key environmental determinants for the house dust microbiome from an existing collection of spatially (area of Munich, Germany) and temporally (301 days) distributed …

Possible pathogens in rainwater harvesting tanks

Just came across this article entitled “Rainwater harvesting tanks enable spread of dangerous pathogens, study shows”.  The article describes a fairly straightforward set of findings from rainwater storage tanks in South Africa.  Researchers found Legionella, Klebsiella, Giardia, Salmonella, and Yersinia.  Not a friendly-sounding list of bugs. However, I have the usual set of issues with …