Nonthermal atmospheric plasma rapidly disinfects multidrug-resistant microbes by inducing cell surface damage

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2028-2036

  Kvam, Erik ^a   Davis, Brian ^a   Mondello, Frank ^a   Garner, Allen L ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMPICILLIN; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIAZOLE;

ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DAMAGE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL MEMBRANE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISINFECTION; DNA BREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, FUNGAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; GASES; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PERMEABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA, BACTERIAL; STERILIZATION;

EID: 84858685972     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05642-11     Document Type: Article

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