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The units also operate in doctors’ clinics, operating technology reduces the burden on high-efficiency
rooms, neonatal wards, and waiting areas, an often- particulate air filters and laminar flow environments.
overlooked location rife with germs and bacteria such Adaptions for use in everyday living environments
as respiratory influenza or mycobacterium tuberculosis, include eliminating mold, mildew, germs and unwanted
and which are frequented by people with compromised odors in hotel rooms and offices, where illnesses
immune systems. Units made operating rooms safer caused by airborne organisms can lower productivity.
for all inhabitants by removing harmful bacteria such Airocide even offers a consumer line that makes the
as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and same technology used on the space station available
vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, and the fungi in homes to help eliminate bacteria, mold and fungi
Penicillium and Aspergillus. In addition to eliminating as well as allergens such as dust and dander, and
virtually all known airborne germs and diseases, the potentially harmful particulate matter.

Astronaut Peggy Whitson with the ADVASC soybean plant growth experiment during Expedition 5.
Image credit: NASA

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