Year: 2012

Baudoinia compniacensis is a hip, cool fungus that likes booze. It grows in places where there’s alcohol in the air – around spirit maturation warehouses and even near bakeries – and in the process, it makes a nuisance of itself by turning stuff black. At Sporometrics, we are the world experts on this interesting fungus: […]

Scott JA, Konya T, Ewaze JO. 2012. Influence of sample mass on the measurement confidence of microbial cell wall materials in vacuum-collected floor dust. Healthy Buildings 4H.1: 1-4.

Konya T, Ewaze JO, Urch B, Shu H, Curran J, Speck M, Allen R, Brook J, Diamond M, Evans G, Takaro T, Wheeler A, Scott JA. 2012. Development and validation of the TefTex electrostatic wipe for indoor dust sampling. Healthy Buildings 4H.9: 1-5.

Drudge C, Krajden S, Summerbell RC, Scott JA. 2012. Detection of antibiotic resistance genes associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and coagulase negative Staphylococci in hospital air filter dust by PCR. Aerobiolgia 28(2): 285-289. doi: 10.1007/s10453-011-9219-x.

IF YOU thought the bacteria that line our gut were pretty personal, think again. They influence our digestion, risk of disease, and even our behaviour. Now it seems we might be sharing these gut bugs with the people around us – via dust. Dr. James Scott at the University of Toronto in Canada and his […]