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AssigneesPurdue Research Foundation, Nanovis, LLC
InventorsAllen Lawrence Garner, Ram Anand Vadlamani, David Alan Detwiler
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Provided is a method of reducing a number of viable microbes, including contacting microbes with an antibiotic compound and applying pulses of electricity having a duration of between about 50 nanoseconds and about 900 nanoseconds. The pulses of electricity may have an intensity between about 20 kV/cm and about 40 kV/cm. The pulses of electricity may be applied at a frequency of between about 0.1 Hz and about 10 Hz. The microbes may be a gram-negative or a gram-positive strain of bacteria and the antibiotic may be applied at a concentration for a duration, wherein applying the antibiotic to the strain at the concentration for the duration does not reduce a viable number of bacteria of the strain as much, or at all, when the pulses of electricity are not also applied.
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A method of reducing a number of viable microbes, comprising:
A method of reducing a number of viable microbes, comprising:
A method of reducing a number of viable microbes, comprising:
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