Progress in alternative strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance: Focus on antibiotics

J Murugaiyan, PA Kumar, GS Rao, K Iskandar… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance, and, in a broader perspective, antimicrobial resistance (AMR),
continues to evolve and spread beyond all boundaries. As a result, infectious diseases have …

Inactivation mechanisms of non-thermal plasma on microbes: A review

X Liao, D Liu, Q Xiang, J Ahn, S Chen, X Ye, T Ding - Food control, 2017 - Elsevier
The increasing consumption of fresh-like food products requires the development of mild
processing technologies without loss of nutritional value and sensory quality of foods. Non …

Cold atmospheric plasma delivery for biomedical applications

Z Chen, G Chen, R Obenchain, R Zhang, F Bai, T Fang… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
As the fourth state of matter, plasma's unique properties and interactions with other states of
matter offer many promising opportunities for investigation and discovery. In particular, cold …

Nonthermal plasma—A tool for decontamination and disinfection

V Scholtz, J Pazlarova, H Souskova, J Khun… - Biotechnology …, 2015 - Elsevier
By definition, the nonthermal plasma (NTP) is partially ionized gas where the energy is
stored mostly in the free electrons and the overall temperature remains low. NTP is widely …

The emerging potential of cold atmospheric plasma in skin biology

G Busco, E Robert, N Chettouh-Hammas… - Free Radical Biology …, 2020 - Elsevier
The maintenance of skin integrity is crucial to ensure the physiological barrier against
exogenous compounds, microorganisms and dehydration but also to fulfill social and …

Microbiological interactions with cold plasma

P Bourke, D Ziuzina, L Han, PJ Cullen… - Journal of applied …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
There is a diverse range of microbiological challenges facing the food, healthcare and
clinical sectors. The increasing and pervasive resistance to broad‐spectrum antibiotics and …

Perspective: The physics, diagnostics, and applications of atmospheric pressure low temperature plasma sources used in plasma medicine

M Laroussi, X Lu, M Keidar - Journal of Applied Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Low temperature plasmas have been used in various plasma processing applications for
several decades. But it is only in the last thirty years or so that sources generating such …

Application of cold plasma technology in the food industry and its combination with other emerging technologies

Y Ucar, Z Ceylan, M Durmus, O Tomar… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The search for preservation methods that can be used as alternatives to heat
treatment is a significant issue in food quality. Utilization of plasma technology, a useful …

Plasmas for medicine

T Von Woedtke, S Reuter, K Masur, KD Weltmann - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
Plasma medicine is an innovative and emerging field combining plasma physics, life
science and clinical medicine. In a more general perspective, medical application of …

The plasma jet kINPen–A powerful tool for wound healing

S Bekeschus, A Schmidt, KD Weltmann… - Clinical Plasma …, 2016 - Elsevier
The development of cold atmospheric pressure plasma sources was the starting point for the
innovative field of plasma medicine many years ago. Today, a large body of information is …