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Effects of Radio-Frequency Voltages on Bacteria

Nature volume 166, page 434 (1950)Cite this article

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NYROP1, and Brown, Hoyler and Bierwith2, have claimed that it is possible to destroy a large proportion of the bacteria in a liquid suspension at sublethal temperatures by the application of high radio-frequency voltage gradients. Attempts have been made to confirm these results in order to determine the factors involved.

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  1. Nyrop, J. E., Nature, 157, 51 (1946).

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  2. Brown, G. H., Hoyler, C. N., and Bierwith, R. A., “Theory and Applications of Radio-Frequency Heating”, chapter 23 (Van Nostrand, 1947).

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  1. National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, nr. Reading

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BURTON, H. Effects of Radio-Frequency Voltages on Bacteria. Nature 166, 434 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166434a0

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