Lethal and mutational effects of solar a
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Robin M. Chapple; Barbara Inglis; Peter R. Stewart
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Article
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1992
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Springer
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English
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Strains of Staphylococcus aureus, an opportunistic pathogen commonly found on human skin, were exposed to sunlight and UV C radiation, and the lethal and mutational effects measured. Sunlight killed cells with an inactivation constant of 3 x 10(-5) per joule per square metre; UV C was much more leth