In the past ten years natural extracts have been used as important potential applications to
prevent mold growth on in-service wood. The growth of fungal hyphae of five common mold …

Cultural heritage constitutive materials can provide excellent substrates for microbial
colonization, highly influenced by thermo-hygrometric parameters. In cultural heritage …

Natural extracts have become of high interest in the past ten years for their inhibiting the
growth of molds over wood and wood products surfaces in service or during the storage of …

Dluwang was made from the bark of the paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera Vent.). Old
Javanese manuscripts were handwritten on dluwang. Fungi samples from deteriorated …

The quality of the indoor air can provide very useful information for the artwork conservation.
The aim of the study was to evaluate the microbial concentration inside six document …

The literature of environmental microbiology broadly discusses issues associated with
microbial hazards in archives, but these publications are mainly devoted to paper …

In order to study the fungal diversity in different parchment collections from the “Arquivo da
Universidade de Coimbra”, eighty different documents, belonging to five different collections …

Mold deterioration of historical documents in archives and libraries is a frequent and
complex phenomenon that may have important economic and cultural consequences. In …

Four saprophytic bacterial and fungal species attacked the manuscript that dated back to
1251 AH at Al-Azhar library in Cairo, Egypt were isolated. Based on the partial 16S rRNA …

Old manuscripts, as organic materials, can be subjected to deterioration by fungi [1]. Fungal
species (over 200) are the main cause of damage to objects of cultural heritage made of or …