In the case of a release of highly pathogenic bacteria (HPB), there is an urgent need for rapid, accurate, and reliable diagnostics. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry is a rapid, accurate, and relatively inexpensive technique that is becoming increasingly important in microbiological diagnostics to complement classical microbiology, PCR, and genotyping of HPB. In the present study, the results of a j...

Background/Aim. Bacterial contamination of blood components, primarily platelet concentrates (PCs), has been identified as one of the most frequent infectious complications in transfusion practice. PC units have a high risk for bacterial growth/multiplication due to their storage at ambient temperature (20 ± 2°C). Consequences of blood contamination could be effectively prevented or reduced by ...

rhabditidae is a family of free-living nematodes. free living nematodes due to their active movement and resistance to chlorination, do not remove in conventional water treatment processes thus can be entered to distribution systems and cause adverse health effects. ultraviolet radiation (uv) can be used as a method of inactivating for these organisms. this cross sectional study was done to inv...

High pressure processing (HPP) is a promising food preservation technology as an alternative to thermal processing for microbial inactivation. The technological parameters, the type of microorganism, and the food composition can greatly affect the microbicidal potential of HPP against spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms. Presently, the number of available models quantifying the influence of ...

To estimate the potential outcomes of food processing on the fate of foodborne pathogens. variations in microbial parameters such as growth rate, survival time, thermal inactivation time, and toxin production must be known. Previous microbial studies using single strains or cocktails provide error estimates for the uncertainty of the experimental and statistical procedures, but not for variatio...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to compare the inhibitory effect of bovine serum albumin (bsa) and hydroxyapatite (ha) on the antibacterial activity of white-colored mta (wmta) against staphylococcus (s.) aureus and streptococcus (s.) mutans after 24 and 72 hours . materials & methods: all materials were prepared according to the manufacturer’s directions immediately before testing....

Venous catheters are important medical devices which are more and more employed in medical treatment. After use, they are currently not re-used, a practice which is very expensive due to their cost. For this reason it is very interesting to be able to set up a sterilizing technology that permit to re-use them without changing their physical properties and the microbial adhesion. The methods usu...

Abstract With the continuous development and expansion of water reclamation reuse market, it is vital to ensure quality safety stability over entire system. Because reclaimed distinct from that drinking water, likely deteriorate, even after advanced treatment, during distribution transport. This review identifies common microbial corrosion in pipelines end use applications (e.g. industrial cool...

The combined disinfection process of ultraviolet and sodium hypochlorite has more advantages than the single method in reducing disinfectant dosage, shortening reaction time, resisting impact water quality changes inhibiting light reactivation microorganisms. Given this, using secondary effluent a sewage plant as research object, efficiency was investigated. experimental results showed that ina...

Essential oils (EOs) are natural food preservatives, but they may impair the sensory characteristics of foods. Emerging technologies (ETs) can inactivate microorganisms, high intensities process compromise quality parameters. This manuscript discusses use EOs and ETs presents mechanisms microbial inactivation in combined processes. Also, advantages, disadvantages, limitations EO were explained....