Microbial Growth Inhibition by Alternating Electric Fields
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Microbial growth inhibition by alternating electric fields.
Weak electric currents generated using conductive electrodes have been shown to increase the efficacy of antibiotics against bacterial biofilms, a phenomenon termed "the bioelectric effect." The purposes of the present study were (i) to find out whether insulated electrodes that generate electric fields without "ohmic" electric currents, and thus are not associated with the formation of metal i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0066-4804,1098-6596
DOI: 10.1128/aac.00673-08