Pollution of Airborne Fungi in Naturally Ventilated Repositories of the Provincial Historical Archive of Santiago de Cuba (Cuba)  

作　　者：Sofía Borrego Alian Molina Yuneisis Bonne Anyilena González Lidiersy Méndez 

机构地区：[1]Conservation Preventive laboratory,National Archive of the Republic of Cuba,Havana city,Cuba [2]Conservation Department,Provincial Historic Archive of Santiago de Cuba,Santiago de Cuba city,Cuba

出　　处：《Journal of Atmospheric Science Research》2022年第2期13-32,共20页大气科学研究（英文）

基　　金：This research project was financially supported by the Ministry of Science,Technology and Environment(CIT­MA)of Cuba(Grant number I-2118025001).

摘　　要：Environmental fungi can damage the documentary heritage conserved in archives and affect the personnel’s health if their concentrations,thermo-hygrometric parameters and ventilation conditions are not adequate,problems that can be accentuated by Climate Change.The aims of this work were to identify and to characterize the airborne fungal pollution of naturally ventilated repositories in the Provincial Historical Archive of Santiago de Cuba and predict the risk that these fungi pose to the staff’s health.Indoor air of three repositories of this archive and the outdoor air were sampled in an occasion every time in 2015,2016 and 2017 using a SAS sampler.The obtained fungal concentrations varied from 135.6 CFU/m^(3) to 421.1 CFU/m^(3) and the indoor/outdoor ratios fluctuated from 0.7 to 4.2,evidencing a variable environmental quality over time,but in the third sampling the repositories environments showed good quality.Aspergillus and Cladosporium were the predominant genera in these environments.A.flavus was a prevailed species in indoor air,while A.niger and Cl.cladosporioides were the species that showed the greatest similarities with the outdoor air.Coremiella and Talaromyces genera as well as the species Aspergillus uvarum,Alternaria ricini and Cladosporium staurophorum were the first findings for environments of Cuban archives.Xerophilic species(A.flavus,A.niger,A.ochraceus,A.ustus)indicators of moisture problems in the repositories were detected;they are also opportunistic pathogens and toxigenic species but their concentrations were higher than the recommended,demonstrating the potential risk to which the archive personnel is exposed in a circumstantial way.

关 键 词：Archive environments Fungal pollution Indoor air Environmental quality Ventilated repositories Toxigenic species 

分 类 号：G84[文化科学—体育训练]