Abstract This report is a study of the effects of UV exposure on the growth of four strains of non-photosynthetic bacteria: Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus megaturium and Psuedomonas aeruginosa. Using a UV Transilluminator, each strain was exposed to nine different time intervals of UV radiation at a frequency of 1x 10 Mhz. After 48 hours of incubation, the kill time was determined by the first interval that produced no visible growth of colonies. The kill time …showed first 75 words of 1307 total…

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