Daylight exposure modulates bacterial communities associated with household dust.
Ashkaan K FahimipourErica M HartmannAndrew SiemensJeff KlineDavid A LevinHannah WilsonClarisse M Betancourt-RománG Z BrownMark FretzDale NorthcuttKyla N SiemensCurtis HuttenhowerJessica L GreenKevin Van Den WymelenbergPublished in: Microbiome (2018)
Our experimental and simulation-based results indicate that dust contains living bacterial taxa that can be inactivated following changes in local abiotic conditions and suggest that the bactericidal potential of ordinary window-filtered sunlight may be similar to ultraviolet wavelengths across dosages that are relevant to real buildings.