In vitro analysis of nonthermal plasma as a disinfecting agent

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2030-2035

  Watts, Ashlee E ^a   Fubini, Susan L ^a   Vernier Singer, Margaret ^a   Golkowski, Czeslaw ^b   Shin, Sang ^a   Todhunter, Rory J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Super Pulse   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; DISINFECTION; EPIDERMIS; EXPLANT; FIBROBLAST; GROWTH INHIBITION; HORSE; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; SAFETY; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DERMIS; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33845979499     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.67.12.2030     Document Type: Article

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