Ecological succession of the microbial communities of an air-conditioning cooling coil in the tropics

• Main Authors: Acerbi, Enzo, Chenard, Caroline, Miller, Dana, Gaultier, Nicolas Eugene, Heinle, Cassie Elizabeth, Chang, Victor Wei-Chung, Uchida, Akira, Drautz-Moses, Daniela I., Schuster, Stephan Christoph, Lauro, Federico M.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Airborne; 16S
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84693; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41901
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Air-conditioning systems harbor microorganisms, potentially spreading them to indoor environments. While air and surfaces in air-conditioning systems are periodically sampled as potential sources of indoor microbes, little is known about the dynamics of cooling coil-associated communities and their...