I have a patient with chronic lung disease and allergic reaction to aspergillus. I want to be sure that the items brought to that patients apt by a family member moving from apt contaminated with unknown species of black mold will not expose the patient to aspergillus. What can be used safely on paintings or furniture?
A late reply but Tea Tree oil is good at killing fungal spores on wood. just wipe the item over with a cloth that has been dipped in tea tree oil.
À high quality disinfection procedure we used several times to clean hospital rooms is by fogging hydrogen peroxide. This is a reliable proces that does not affect furniture. All surfaces of all items within the room that will be saturated with hydrogen peroxide fog will have no viable micro organisms and spores anymore after the procedure. For more information about this fogging have a look at my publications.
Are you sure that a fog of hydrogen peroxide will not damage furniture.
I looked and found that fungal spores only require moderate doses of gamma rays to kill off 90 % of them, it looks like when they are wet with water. The dose required was less than 1 kGy, I recall that a typical dose of 10 kGy is used in a medical products irradation plant.
International Journal of Food Microbiology, Volume 26, Issue 3, August 1995, Pages 269–277
" Are you sure that a fog of hydrogen peroxide will not damage furniture ".
The furniture in the ward was not damaged at all. Even the electronic equipment that was exposed to the same amount of hydrogen peroxide was still working without any problems.
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