Decontamination of Surfaces From Extremophile Organisms Using Nonthermal Atmospheric-Pressure Plasmas Academic Article

abstract

• We showed that nonthermal dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma compromises the integrity of the cell membrane of Deinococcus radiodurans, an extremophile organism. In samples of D. radiodurans, which were dried in a laminar flow hood, we observe that DBD plasma exposure resulted in a six-log reduction in CFU (colony-forming unit) count after 30 min of treatment. When the Deinococcus radiodurans cells were suspended in distilled water and treated, it took only 15 s to achieve a four-log reduction of CFU count. 2009 IEEE.

authors

• Staack, David

published proceedings

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

author list (cited authors)

• Cooper, M., Fridman, G., Staack, D., Gutsol, A. F., Vasilets, V. N., Anandan, S., ... Tsapin, A.

citation count

• 60

complete list of authors

• Cooper, Moogega||Fridman, Gregory||Staack, David||Gutsol, Alexander F||Vasilets, Victor N||Anandan, Shivanthi||Cho, Young I||Fridman, Alexander||Tsapin, Alexandre

publication date

• June 2009

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

keywords

• Atmospheric-pressure Discharges
• Cold Plasma
• Dielectric Barrier Discharges (dbds)
• Plasma Decontamination
• Sterilization

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/TPS.2008.2010618

start page

• 866

end page

• 871

volume

• 37

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tps.2008.2010618