Competing inactivation agents for bacterial spores in radio-frequency oxygen plasmas

Plasma Processes and Polymers

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 350-358

  Vicoveanu, Dragos ^a   Popescu, Sebastian ^a,b   Ohtsu, Yasunori ^a   Fujita, Hiroharu ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bacterial spores; Inactivation agents; Inductively coupled plasma; Radio frequency glow discharges (RFGD); Sterilization

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; GLOW DISCHARGES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; OXYGEN; STERILIZATION (CLEANING);

BACILLUS SUBTILIS SPORES; BACTERIAL SPORE; DECIMAL REDUCTION; INACTIVATION KINETICS; OPTICAL RADIATIONS; PLASMA PARTICLES; RADIO FREQUENCY GLOW DISCHARGE; RADIO FREQUENCY OXYGEN PLASMA;

RADIO WAVES;

EID: 53349170255     PISSN: 16128850     EISSN: 16128869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppap.200700146     Document Type: Article

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