对明串珠菌及其他细菌的抑制效果

在从压榨间直到蔗汁澄清的蔗糖生产过程中,蔗汁中微生物活动是破坏蔗糖品质的一个重要因素。蔗糖损失和葡聚糖的形成通常与蔗汁中微生物引起的变质有关。多年来,这一直成为糖厂试图改善蔗糖品质时所面临的问题。本文以直接影响得糖率的微生物减少和相对纯度为指标,研究了不同杀菌方法在蔗汁中的效果。浓度为0.007%的S抑制剂显示了对某糖厂初压汁和混合汁中的微生物菌群的抗菌效应。在对照组中,12h后观察到4.8单位的纯度降低。加入S抑制剂后,只降低2个单位。且蔗汁的稳定性在3个样品中几乎完全一致。以S抑制剂处理的蔗汁保持深褐色和清新的气味,且pH与初始相比无显著变化,而未处理的蔗汁变浅褐色,产生很强的酒味,pH和纯度显著降低。这种稳定效应尚未被其他常用的糖用杀菌剂所报导。同样,本文证明了有可能通过使用S抑制剂来稳定混合汁。经S抑制剂处理后,游离的还原物质和多聚糖比不经处理的样品低6倍。这些结果表明,形成的葡聚糖以及随之形成的游离果糖减少。     

Campylobacter contamination of raw meat and poultry at retail sale: identification of multiple types and comparison with isolates from human infection

Campylobacter species are the major cause of acute bacterial enteritis reported in the United Kingdom, nonetheless many aspects of campylobacteriosis epidemiology remain poorly understood. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in fresh bovine, ovine, and porcine liver and chicken portions from retail outlets and compare strain subtype distributions with those associated with cases of human campylobacteriosis occurring within the same period and study area. Meat samples were examined by both enrichment culture and direct plating, and Campylobacter isolates were subjected to the same test procedures (identification, serotyping, phagetyping, resistotyping) applied to the clinical strains. Campylobacter species were isolated from 73.2% of 489 samples examined. Chicken exhibited the highest contamination rate (83.3%), followed by lamb (72.9%), pig (71.7%), and ox (54.2%) liver. C. jejuni predominated in chicken (77.3%), lamb (75.0%), and ox (49.0%) liver, and C. coli predominated in pigs' liver (42.4%). Campylobacter fetus was identified in 12.5% of ox liver samples and also in pig and lamb. Of the human isolates, 89.3% were C. jejuni and 10.7% C. coli. The greatest variation in C. jeuni subtypes was observed among the chicken isolates (57 sero/phage-types), followed by human (48 types) and lamb (30 types). A significant proportion of the chicken and lamb isolates shared identical subtypes with the human strains, indicative of their role as potential sources of infection. Almost 30% of samples yielded multiple strains of Campylobacter, a finding that reinforces the epidemiological importance of selecting and testing more than one presumptive isolate per sample.     

Application of infrared emission spectroscopy to the thermal transition of indium hydroxide to indium oxide nanocubes

Cubic indium hydroxide nanomaterials were obtained by a low-temperature soft-chemical method without any surfactants. The transition of nano-cubic indium hydroxide to cubic indium oxide during dehydroxylation has been studied by infrared emission spectroscopy. The spectra are related to the structure of the materials and the changes in the structure upon thermal treatment. The infrared absorption spectrum of In(OH)(3) is characterized by an intense OH deformation band at 1150 cm(-1) and two O-H stretching bands at 3107 and 3221 cm(-1). In the infrared emission spectra, the hydroxyl-stretching and hydroxyl-bending bands diminish dramatically upon heating, and no intensity remains after 200 °C. However, new low intensity bands are found in the OH deformation region at 915 cm(-1) and in the OH stretching region at 3437 cm(-1). These bands are attributed to the vibrations of newly formed InOH bonds because of the release and transfer of protons during calcination of the nanomaterial. The use of infrared emission spectroscopy enables the low-temperature phase transition brought about through dehydration of In(OH)(3) nanocubes to be studied.     

A control and management network for wireless ATM systems

This paper describes the design of a control and management network (orderwire) for a mobile wireless Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network. This mobile wireless ATM network is part of the Rapidly Deployable Radio Network (RDRN). The orderwire system consists of a packet radio network which overlays the mobile wireless ATM network. Each network element in this network uses Global Positioning System (GPS) information to control a beamforming antenna subsystem which provides for spatial reuse. This paper also proposes a novel Virtual Network Configuration (VNC) algorithm for predictive network configuration. A mobile ATM Private Network–Network Interface (PNNI) based on VNC is also discussed. Finally, as a prelude to the system implementation, results of a Maisie simulation of the orderwire system are discussed. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

In vivo biocompatibility and analytical performance of intravascular amperometric oxygen sensors prepared with improved nitric oxide-releasing silicone rubber coating

The in vivo biocompatibility and analytical performance of amperometric oxygen-sensing catheters prepared with a new type of nitric oxide (NO)-releasing silicone rubber polymer (DACA/N2O2 SR) is reported. The NO-release silicone rubber coating contains diazeniumdiolated secondary amine sites covalently anchored to a dimethylsiloxane matrix. Narrow diameter (0.9 mm, o.d.) silicone rubber tubing coated with this polymer can be employed to construct functional oxygen-sensing catheters that release NO continuously at levels > 1 x 10(-10) mol/cm2-min for more than 20 h. In vivo evaluation of such sensors within the carotid and femoral arteries of swine over a 16-h time period demonstrates that sensors prepared with the new NO-release coating exhibit no significant platelet adhesion or thrombus formation, but control sensors (non-NO release) implanted within the same animals do show a high propensity for cell adhesion and bulk clot formation. Furthermore, the in vivo analytical data provided by sensors fabricated with NO-release coatings (N = 9) are shown to be statistically equivalent to PO2 levels measured in vitro on discrete samples of blood. Control sensors (N = 9) placed within the same animals yield average PO2 values that are statistically different (p < or = 0.05) (lower) from both the levels measured on discrete samples and those provided by the NO-release sensors over a 16-h in vivo monitoring period.