1. An environmental assessment of biodeterioration in document repositories
- Author
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Paola Lavin, S. G. Gomez de Saravia, and Patricia Sandra Guiamet
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Paper ,Biofouling ,Air Microbiology ,Colony Count, Microbial ,Bacillus ,INGENIERÍAS Y TECNOLOGÍAS ,Bacillus sp ,Comunicación y Medios ,Aquatic Science ,Papel y Madera ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Bacterial Adhesion ,Ciencias Biológicas ,CIENCIAS SOCIALES ,Bibliotecología ,Environmental protection ,Ingeniería de los Materiales ,MICROORGANISMS ,Environmental impact assessment ,Water Science and Technology ,ENVIRONMENTAL AIR QUALITY ,Ecology ,Foxing ,Fungi ,MICROPITTING ,FOXING ,Geography ,BIOADHESION ,Biofilms ,Scopulariopsis ,MICROBIAL CONCENTRATION ,Micología ,DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE ,CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS ,Environmental Monitoring - Abstract
Experiments were designed (1) to investigate the bioadhesion, biofilm formation, foxing, and micropitting in documentary collections, (2) to assess the risk of biodeterioration, (3) to investigate the environmental microbial concentration, and (4) to study the influence of environmental factors in biodeterioration of documentary heritage in three archives. The importance of this work in the field of biodeterioration of documentary heritage was verified by bioadhesion and biofilm formation by microorganisms isolated from the collections under study. Bacillus sp. and Scopulariopsis sp. isolated from paper books showed considerable evidence of attacking the paper structure and of pigment production, constituting a hazard to the loss of documentary heritage. Fil: Lavin, Paola. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico la Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina Fil: Gómez de Saravia, Sandra Gabriela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico la Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina Fil: Guiamet, Patricia Sandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico la Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata; Argentina
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- 2014