Viruses, Bacteria and Fungi in the Built Environment: Designing Healthy Indoor Environments

ISBN-13: 9780323852067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 350 str.

F. Pacheco-Torgal; Volodymyr Ivanov; Joseph O. Falkinham

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Part 1: Basics of Microbiology and Pathogenic Contamination
2. Basics of microbiology in the built environment
3. Opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens in the built-environment"
4. Influence of materials on biofilm formation
5. Black fungi in the built environment-the good, the bad, and the ugly
6. "Air and wall mycobiota interactions - a case study in the Old Cathedral of Coimbra"
7. Airborne transmission and indoor air pollution
8. Airborne bacteria and sick building syndrome

Part 2: Strategies for Monitoring and Control of Indoor Pathogens
9. Fungal contamination assessment in Healthcare environments
10. Indoor fungi threshold levels
11. Smart technologies for Covid-19 indoor monitoring
12. Ventilation strategies for healthy indoors in hospitals
13. Innovative coating materials to prevent fungi growth
14. Indoor fungal control by galvanic cells

O autorze

Dr. F. Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Portugal. He holds the title of Counsellor at the Portuguese Engineers Association. He is a member of the editorial boards for nine international journals. Over the last 10 years he has participated in the research decision for more than 460 papers and has also acted as a Foreign Expert on the evaluation of 22 PhD thesis. Over the last 10 years he has also been a Member of the Scientific Committees for more than 60 conferences, most of them held in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries, including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years, he reviewed more than 70 research projects. Dr. Volodymyr Ivanov has more than 40 years of teaching and research experience on Environmental, Industrial, and Construction Microbiology and Biotechnology in the universities of Europe, Asia, and USA. He has authored 200 papers, patents, book chapters and 8 monographs. His textbook "Environmental Microbiology for Engineers”, Francis & Taylor, 1st (2010) and 2nd (2015) editions, has been adopted for graduate and post-graduate courses in many universities. His research experience includes the supervision and participation in numerous projects on biotechnologies with biofilms and biogranules, microbial transformations of iron, biocementation, bioclogging, bioremediation of soil, and microbiological monitoring of water quality. Dr Falkinham is a professor of microbiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research interests include the epidemiology of Mycobacterium avium, metal oxidation and reduction in biofilms and predatory bacteria ecology