Characterization of an airborne microbial community: A case study in the archive of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

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• 作者：Inê ; s Nunes^a ; ^{inunes@itn.pt} ; ^{Ines.Nunes@bio.ku.dk} ; Nuno Mesquita^b ; ^{nuno@plasticsounds.com} ; Sandra Cabo Verde^a ; ^{sandracv@itn.pt} ; Ana Maria Leitã ; o Bandeira^c ; ^{amaria.bandeira@auc.uc.pt} ; Maria Manuela Carolino^d ; ^{mmcarolino@fc.ul.pt} ; Antó ; nio Portugal^b ; ^{aportuga@bot.uc.pt} ; Maria Luí ; sa Botelho^a ; ^mlb@itn.pt
• 关键词：Indoor air ; Airborne population ; Microbial diversity ; Archive
• 刊名：International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：April, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：79
• 期：Complete
• 页码：36-41
• 全文大小：220 K

文摘

Understanding the structure of indoor airborne microbial communities could be useful in optimizing conservation and disinfection procedures in archive repositories, preventing the biodeterioration of stored collections. In this study we characterized the microbial air community inside the Archive of the University of Coimbra, by identifying different fungal and bacterial organisms retrieved from air samples. The microbial contamination was determined using conventional culture methods, and the isolates were typified using morphological techniques. Results indicated a low microbial air contamination (107?¡À?12?CFU/m³), particularly regarding fungal propagules (6?¡À?1?CFU/m³). Fungal isolates were identified using ITS-DNA sequencing. Among fungal isolates, Penicillium was the most frequent genus, and Penicillium griseofulvum was the predominant species. Simpson diversity index (1-D) was applied to phenotypic and genotypic results. Total phenotypic diversity varied from 0.4 to 0.8 and regarding fungal species, the diversity was higher than 0.5. These results were compared with previous analyses of the Archive's air, suggesting that short-term changes in atmospheric conditions may influence the indoor air microbial community structure.