Surface Protein Destruction Using Cold Atmospheric Plasmas

摘要

It is well known that surgical instruments and medical devices are contaminated by both bacteriaand infectious proteins. However most bio-decontamination studies reported using coldatmospheric plasmas are limited to bacterial inactivation and their ability to destroy infectiousprotein residual left on surgical instruments has so far received relatively little attention. In thispaper, we present a systematic study of surface protein removal and destruction using a heliumoxygenatmospheric plasma source. It is shown that such cold atmospheric plasmas are effectivein destroying surface protein.