One of the serious problems that may be encountered while caring for personnel contaminated with organophosphate (OP) chemical warfare nerve agents is the possibility that there will be crosscontamination to the medical personnel. Secondly, during combat or terrorist acts, individuals might be exposed to chemical toxins before they don their protective gear. Therefore, we have attempted to deve...

Abstract Toxic metal contamination of soil is a major environmental hazard. Chemical methods for heavy metal's (HMs) decontamination such as heat treatment, electroremediation, replacement, precipitation and chemical leaching are generally very costly not be applicable to agricultural lands. However, many strategies being used restore polluted environments. Among these, phytoremediation promisi...

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is shed into the milk and feces of cows with advanced Johne's disease, allowing the transmission of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis between animals. The objective of this study was to formulate an optimized protocol for the isolation of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis in milk. The parameters investigated included chemical decontamination with N-acet...

The effect of 10 and 25 kGy ?-irradiation on penicillin G plus procaine and sodium ampicillin has been assessed by different chemical and microbiological analytical methods. According to the chemical results obtained, the antibiotics showed a slight reduction in doses applied but the microbiological assays revealed that the activity of irradiated antibiotics did not reduce. Microbiological stud...

The effect of 10 and 25 kGy ?-irradiation on penicillin G plus procaine and sodium ampicillin has been assessed by different chemical and microbiological analytical methods. According to the chemical results obtained, the antibiotics showed a slight reduction in doses applied but the microbiological assays revealed that the activity of irradiated antibiotics did not reduce. Microbiological stud...

This is a case report of decontamination and treatment of a 70% hydrofluoric acid (HF) dermal splash injury. A worker was splashed with 70% HF, sustaining approximately 10% TBSA first- to third-degree chemical skin burns of the face, trunk, and left thigh and leg. Initial decontamination involved water rinsing, removal of contaminated clothing, more water rinsing, topical application of magnesi...

Nine publically available biosafety protocols for safely handling conotoxin peptides were tested to evaluate their decontamination efficacy. Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry (MS) were used to assess the effect of each chemical treatment on the secondary and primary structure of α-CTx MII (L10V, E11A). Of the nine decontamination methods tested, treatment with 1% (m/v) ...