ArticleJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Temperature versus Relative Humidity: Which Is More Important for Indoor Mold Prevention?
Article in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Association between environmental mold exposure and mild cognitive impairment in older adults: a case-control study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- INdoor Home Air Level Exploration (INHALE) Study: Protocol to Monitor Indoor Pollution in British Dwellings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Tracking and Treating Fungal Contamination in Indoor-Growing Barley Sprouts.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Bioaerosols and Airway Diseases: Mechanisms of Epithelial Dysfunction, Immune Activation, and Strategies for Exposure Mitigation.Archives of internal medicine research · 2025Article
- Effects of irrigation and nitrogen management on phyllosphere microbial communities of silage maize.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Association of exposure to indoor molds and dampness with allergic diseases at water-damaged dwellings in Korea.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Temperature is known as one of the abiotic factors that can affect mold growth. Many mold growth prediction models consider temperature as one of the parameters that can significantly impact mold growth indoors, and hence temperature has been targeted by different indoor mold prevention strategies on different premises. For example, European guidelines for libraries suggest a temperature of 19 °C to preserve books. However, running low temperature air-conditioning (AC) costs substantially more energy, and thus a higher temperature (e.g., 25.5 °C) has been regularly proposed as the recommended indoor temperature for general indoor environments in Hong Kong. It is, therefore, needed to understand whether or not the reduction of indoor temperature would lead to better effectiveness of mold prevention. Using
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