TY - JOUR
T1 - Microscopic and spectroscopic evaluation of inactivation of staphylococcus aureus by pulsed UV light and infrared heating
AU - Krishnamurthy, Kathiravan
AU - Tewari, Jagdish C.
AU - Irudayaraj, Joseph
AU - Demirci, Ali
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments Funding for this study was provided in part by USDA Special Research Grant (2002-34163-11837) and Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station. Pulsed UV light system was provided by a grant from NASA Food Technology Commercial Space Center. The authors express their sincere appreciation to the staff at the electron microscopy facility of Pennsylvania State University, especially Dr. Gang Ning, Ruth Haldeman, and Missy Hazen for their technical support. We would like to acknowledge Dr. Eric T. Harvill and Dr. Andrew Henderson for granting permission to use their equipment and facility. We also would like to express our gratitude to Xenon for providing technical support for the pulsed UV light system.
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - Pulsed UV light and infrared heat-treated Staphylococcus aureus cells were analyzed using transmission electron microscopy to identify the cell damage due to the treatment process. A 5-s treatment with pulsed UV light resulted in complete inactivation of S. aureus even after enrichment. The temperature increase during the pulsed UV light treatment was insignificant, which suggested a nonthermal treatment. S. aureus was also infrared heat treated using an infrared heating system with six infrared lamps. Five milliliters of S. aureus cells in phosphate buffer was treated at 700°C lamp temperature for 20 min. The microscopic observation clearly indicated that there was cell wall damage, cytoplasmic membrane shrinkage, cellular content leakage, and mesosome disintegration after both pulsed UV light and infrared treatments. Fourier transform infrared microspectrometry was successfully used to classify the pulsed UV light and infrared heat-treated S. aureus by discriminant analysis.
AB - Pulsed UV light and infrared heat-treated Staphylococcus aureus cells were analyzed using transmission electron microscopy to identify the cell damage due to the treatment process. A 5-s treatment with pulsed UV light resulted in complete inactivation of S. aureus even after enrichment. The temperature increase during the pulsed UV light treatment was insignificant, which suggested a nonthermal treatment. S. aureus was also infrared heat treated using an infrared heating system with six infrared lamps. Five milliliters of S. aureus cells in phosphate buffer was treated at 700°C lamp temperature for 20 min. The microscopic observation clearly indicated that there was cell wall damage, cytoplasmic membrane shrinkage, cellular content leakage, and mesosome disintegration after both pulsed UV light and infrared treatments. Fourier transform infrared microspectrometry was successfully used to classify the pulsed UV light and infrared heat-treated S. aureus by discriminant analysis.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11947-008-0084-8
DO - 10.1007/s11947-008-0084-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:72549113771
SN - 1935-5130
VL - 3
SP - 93
EP - 104
JO - Food and Bioprocess Technology
JF - Food and Bioprocess Technology
IS - 1
ER -