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Killing Power Of Bleach Enhanced By Addition Of Vinegar

...ieve a 100% success with respect to destruction of spore forms. The researchers recommend dilution of household bleach in one gallon of water followed by addition of a cup of household white vinegar. The results of this study could have valuable implications in the disinfection of places where there are ...

Anthrax Spores May Resist Water Treatment

...ied to households. No significant reduction in the spore form could be observed after 60 minutes. It has been further stated that non-sporocytic forms of waterborne pathogens (99.99%) would be killed in just one minute if exposed to the same chlorine concentration. The effect would be more prominent at h...

Himachal Pradesh: Horse Dung To Be Converted Into Organic Fertilizer

...nts. 'If the dung is not properly disposed, the spore bacteria found in it could cause infections to humans here,' said Vijay Sharma, head of the microbiology department at the Indira Gandhi Medical College here. Civic authorities have hit upon a profitable way out. 'We have come up with a plan fo...

Research Shows That Money May Not Harbour Many Pathogenic Bacteria

...nd 5$ & 20$ notes, they found the highly resistant spore bacillus, this causes gastroenteritis, and the opportunistic organism staphylococcus, commonly found on the skin. They also found diarrhoea-causing E.coli, were seen present on some notes and salmonella bacteria on a few coins. They explained that...

Device Can "Battle" Hospital Infections

...ant bacterium into the BioBlower and only one live spore comes out," said Garvey. Through compressive heating and pressure oscillations that break up and kill pathogens, the dual-use technology called BioBlower can be expected to rapidly and continuously eradicate even the smallest of airborne biological...

Monoclonal Antibody based system for Anthrax detection

...ing reaction with the immune system -- because the spore cell surface of anthrax is too similar to those of other bacteria.” "Right now there are antibody-based systems being used in post offices in the U.S.," said Seeberger. "The problem is that anthrax cell surface proteins and those of other closely r...

Anthrax Attack - Greater Potential Threat Than Thought

...ibiotics, suggesting that the intervention impeded spore germination and implying that it may reduce the incidence of both subclinical and clinical B. anthracis infection. In an accompanying editorial, James L. Hadler, MD, MPH, of the Infectious Diseases Section of the Connecticut Department of Public He...

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method

...PA, accounts for 10 to 17 percent of the bacterial spore dry weight,” he notes. “In our research, we worked with sodium DPA, which is similar to the calcium salt, but easier to work with.” The significance of this project has been recognized by other researchers. “This paper is a remarkable achievement...

Genome of Botulism Bacterium Revealed

...sist antibiotics. C. botulinum exists as a dormant spore or a scavenger of decaying animal remains in the s...f its set of almost 3700 genes are used to control spore formation and germination when opportunity arises. "C. botulinum shows us one extreme of the ways ...