Non-thermal argon plasma is bactericidal for the intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 793-799

  Ermolaeva, Svetlana A ^a   Sysolyatina, Elena V ^a   Kolkova, Natalia I ^a   Bortsov, Petr ^a   Tuhvatulin, Amir I ^a   Vasiliev, Mikhail M ^b   Mukhachev, Andrey Y ^a   Petrov, Oleg F ^b   Tetsuji, Shimizu ^c   Naroditsky, Boris S ^a   Morfill, Gregor E ^c   Fortov, Vladimir E ^b   Grigoriev, Anatoly I ^d   Zigangirova, Nelly A ^a   Gintsburg, Alexander L ^a  

^a N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES   (Russian Federation)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; FLUORIDE; MAGNESIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL VACUOLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FIBROBLAST; HOST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARGON; BACTERIAL LOAD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FIBROBLASTS; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PLASMA GASES;

EID: 84861131747     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.038117-0     Document Type: Article

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