UV ENERGY IN MICROWATT-SECONDS PER SQUARE CENTIMETER
BACTERIA MOLD SPORES
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Agrobacterium tumefaciens 8500 Mucor ramosissimus 35200
Bacillus anthraci 8700 (white gray)
Bacillus megaterium 2500 Penicillum expensum 22000
(vegetative) Penicillum roqueforti 26400
Bacillus subtilis 11000 (green)
(vegetative)
Clostridium tetani 22000
Corynebacterium diphtheriae 6500 ALGAE
Escherichia coli 7000 -----
Legionella bozemanii 3500
Legionella dumoffii 5500 Chlorella vulgaris 22000
Legionella gormanii 4900
Legionella micdadei 3100
Legionella longbeachae 2900
Legionella pneumophila 3800 VIRUSES
(Legionnaires disease) -------
Leptospira interrogans 6000
(Infectious Jaundice) Bacteriophage 6600
Mycobacterium tuberculosis 10000 (E. coli.)
Neisseria catarrhalis 8500 Hepatitis virus 8000
Proteus vulgaris 6600 Influenza virus 6600
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 3900 Poliovirus 21000
(laboratory strain) Rotavirus 24000
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 10500
(environmental strain)
Rhodospirilium rubrum 6200 YEAST
Salmonella enteritidis 7600 -----
Salmonella paratyphi 6100
(Enteric fever) Baker's yeast 8800
Salmonella typhimurium 15200 Brewer's yeast 6600
Salmonella typhosa 6000 Common yeast cake 13200
(Thyphoid fever) Saccharomyces var. 13200
Sarcina lutea 26400 ellipsoideus
Serratia marcescens 6200 Saccharomyces sp 17600
Shigella dysenteriae 4200
(Dysentery)
Shigella flexneri 3400 CYSTS
(Dysentery) _____
Shigella sonnei 7000
Staphylococcus opidermidis 5800 Giardia Llamblia <10000
Staphylococcuc aureus 7000 Chryptosporidium <10000
Streptococcus faecalis 10000 Recent research has shown that
Streptococcus hemolyticus 5500 these cysts can be inactivated
Streptococcus lactis 8000 with 5000-10000.
Viridans streptococci 3800 The PURA EPCB filter will also
Vibrio cholerae (Cholera) 6500 remove these cysts.