Bacterial spore inactivation by atmospheric-pressure plasmas in the presence or absence of UV photons as obtained with the same gas mixture

By M. Boudam, M. Moisan, B. Saoudi, C. Popovici, N. Gherardi, F. Massines. 2006

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Applied Plasma Medicine (2008, result): “Operated at atmospheric pressure, her results indicate a very high dependence of the inactivation efficiency on UV, which is somewhat contrary to results presented by other groups [55].”
Low temperature atmospheric pressure plasma sources for microbial decontamination (2011, background): “In recent years many investigations have been made in order to identify the role of single plasma agents for the microorganism inactivation process (Moisan et al., 2001; Laroussi and Leipold, 2004; Boudam et al., 2006; Brandenburg et al., 2007; Gaunt et al., 2006).”
Physical and biological mechanisms of direct plasma interaction with living tissue (2009, background): “The mechanism of UV-based sterilization is widely studied, and indeed in many cases it plays a major role [28, 29], therefore experiment that analyzes the role of UV radiation produced by direct plasma was carried out.”