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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

An Initial Report of the Antimicrobial Activities of Volatiles Produced during Rapid Volatilization of Oils.

Sangeetha Ramamurthy, Jonathan Kopel, David Westenberg, Shubhender Kapila

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sangeetha RamamurthyDepartment of Microbiology, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65401, USA.
Jonathan KopelSchool of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA.
David WestenbergDepartment of Microbiology, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65401, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3510-0311
Shubhender KapilaDepartment of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65401, USA.
Missouri University of Science and Technology · USTexas Tech University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aerosols generated through volatilization and subsequent recondensation of oil vapors have been used as obscurant (smoke) screens during military operations since the early twentieth century. Specifically, a petroleum middle distillate known as the fog oil (FO) has been used in US military battlefields to create obscurant smoke screens. During a study on the feasibility of replacing petroleum-derived FO with vegetable oil-derived esters such as methyl soyate (MS), it was observed that that FO and MS aerosols and vapors did not exhibit detectable mutagenic activity but were lethal to Ames strains bacteria even after very short exposure periods. These results opened the potential use of oil-derived vapors as antimicrobial agents. Subsequent studies showed that optimal aerosol/vapor production conditions could further enhance disinfectant efficiency. For this purpose, we examined the antimicrobial activities of mineral oils and biogenic oil ester aerosols/vapors against a wide range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The results of the study showed that the aerosols/vapors obtained from mineral oil or vegetable oil ester under proper conditions can serve as an excellent antibacterial disinfectant.

Indexed as

antimicrobialsbacteriadisinfectantsfog oilmethyl soyatevaporsviruses

Identifiers

PMID36551399
PMCPMC9774546
OpenAlexW4311522557

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