Low-temperature plasma - a prospective microbicidal tool

Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 223-230

  Helmke, Andreas ^a   Grünig, Petra ^a   Fritz, Ulrich Markus ^a   Wandke, Dirk ^b   Emmert, Steffen ^c   Petersen, Karin ^a   Viöl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HAWK UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Germany)

^b CINOGY GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antiseptic; Candida albicans; Dermatology; Escherichia coli; Low temperature plasma; Microsporum canis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CAMERA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DENSITY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LOW TEMPERATURE PLASMA; MECHANICAL PROBE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPE; MICROSPORUM CANIS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLOSCOPE; PATENT; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEROLOGY TEST KIT; SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THERMODYNAMICS; YEAST;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTISEPSIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSPORUM; PLASMA GASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84870165716     PISSN: 1574891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157489112803521995     Document Type: Article

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