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Apparatus was designed and constructed in which a bacterial aerosol of known age, particle size, and relative humidity (RH) could be exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation of measured intensity for a given period of time and then be sampled quantitatively. Aerosols ofSerratia marcescens were exposed to UV dosages between 96.0 and 0.75 (μw-sec)/cm2 at humidities ranging from 25 to 90%. A sharp decline in the fraction of organisms killed was found at RH values above 60 to 70%. Above 80% RH, there was evidence for reactivation induced by UV. The plot of “log fraction organisms remaining” versus UV dose was curvilinear, suggesting noncompliance with the monomolecular law of reaction velocity, but the Bunsen-Roscoe law of reciprocity between time and intensity of UV exposure was demonstrated to hold. These results could be accounted for by postulating the presence in the aerosol of two populations of organisms with different sensitivities to UV, each individually obeying the monomolecular law of reaction velocity. The data amplify existing information on the relationship between UV disinfection of airborne organisms and RH. In the middle range of humidities, the sensitivity of the organisms to UV was greater than would be expected from published reports.

Effect of Relative Humidity on the Inactivation of Airborne Serratia marcescens by Ultraviolet Radiation