via BBC.com
Norovirus, the most common cause of gastroenteritis in the world, can be killed with “cold plasma,” researchers in Germany have reported.
The virus, which elicits vomiting and diarrhoea, has gained international notoriety for causing outbreaks on cruise ships.
However, such incidents represent merely a fraction of the tens of millions of cases that occur around the world each year.
The research appears in mBio journal.
Preventing norovirus outbreaks is complicated by the fact that the virus is highly resistant to several different chemical disinfectants.
Bleach, a chlorine-based solution, is currently the most effective treatment, but researchers are seeking more convenient alternatives.
One such alternative is cold plasma, also known as non-thermal plasma. This “fourth state of matter” consists of ionised gas molecules at room temperature. These ions can destroy many kinds of microbes, but their effect on viruses was less clear.
Handheld gadget
A team of scientists led by Dr Birte Ahlfeld and Prof Günter Klein at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover examined the effect of cold plasma on a strain of norovirus isolated from a human faecal sample taken during an outbreak at a military base in Germany.
Cold plasma treatment led to a roughly 20- to 50-fold reduction in the number of virus particles.
Read more: ‘Cold plasma’ kills off norovirus
The Latest on: Cold plasma
via Google News
The Latest on: Cold plasma
- Revive lacklustre lockdown skin with Perricone MDon April 14, 2021 at 2:09 am
If the stress of the last year is showing, turn to a miraculous moisturiser: Perricone MD’s Cold Plasma Plus+ The Intensive Hydrating Complex ...
- RCC launches a mobile full-service registration initiative programon April 8, 2021 at 1:38 pm
LUMBERTON — Robeson Community College has launched a mobile full-service registration initiative. The RCC on the Move program will be available at several different locations throughout Robeson County ...
- Crime reporton April 8, 2021 at 9:29 am
Robert Hursey, of Harrington Road in Fairmont, reported Thursday to the Lumberton Police Department that someone stole his vehicle from a location on Holly Street in Lumberton.
- Plasma biomarkers for prediction of early tumor recurrence after resection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaon April 4, 2021 at 5:01 pm
Plasma samples were pooled on the basis of patients’ tumor ... Matrigel domes were disrupted in 1 mL ice-cold PBS for RNA-Isolation. Organoids were centrifuged (5300 rpm, 5 min, 4 °C) and the ...
- Cold Plasma Market Is Expected To Garner USD 4.97 Billion by the End of 2025 By Registering A CAGR of 15.86%on March 23, 2021 at 5:28 am
Mar 23, 2021 (AmericaNewsHour) -- The global Cold Plasma Market was valued at USD 1.32 billion in 2016 and is projected to reach USD 4.97 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 15.86% from 2017 to ...
- Ulta's 21 Days Of Beauty: Get 50% Off Elemis, bareMinerals, Urban Decay & Moreon March 18, 2021 at 6:50 am
Apply Perricone MD Cold Plasma Plus+ Hand Therapy to your hands morning and night to moisturize, tighten and brighten the skin in addition to decreasing the appearance of dark spots and veins.
- An Ultracold Plasma Models the Universe’s Most Extreme Placeson March 17, 2021 at 6:08 am
In a new study published in Nature Communications in January, they created an unprecedentedly dense plasma out of a few thousand extremely cold atoms by hitting them with laser light for just one ...
- Electrostatic wave breaking limit in a cold electronegative plasma with non-Maxwellian electronson March 17, 2021 at 5:30 am
A three-component plasma is considered, consisting of two inertial cold ion populations of opposite signs, evolving against a uniform background of (non-Maxwellian) electrons. A kappa-type (non ...
via Bing News
