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Host University: Philadelphia University
Progress:
Quarterly Report: April 1-June 30, 2009
We have developed a series of unique modular, adaptable and aesthetically pleasing units (breathing wall systems), whose prototypes have been able to capture airborne molds and bacteria responsible for SBS, in five separate locations on the Philadelphia University Campus. To improve on current fabric technologies we have also designed a novel, natural, environmentally friendly fabric, which proved highly effective using in vitro studies, and during the past month (June 2009) this was installed in a wall system for a highly contaminated computer laboratory. Prior to installation the dominant species isolated from the computer laboratory air and physical surfaces were Bacillus bacteria, together with Penicillium, Cladosporium and Aspergillus molds. Preliminary results are promising and suggest the airborne numbers of microbes have been abrogated by more than fifty percent. We now hope to develop a passive system as functionally effective as the active system established.
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