Vladimír Scholtz

TL;DR: Nonthermal plasma usage expanded to new biological areas of application like plasma microorganisms' in activation, ready-to-eat food preparation, biofilm degradation or in healthcare, where it seems to be important for the treatment of cancer cells and in the initiation of apoptosis, prion inactivation, prevention of nosocomial infections or in the therapy of infected wounds.

TL;DR: The sensitivity of various microbes to the low temperature plasma generated by negative corona discharge in the point-to-plane mode was tested, and Candida albicans and Deinococcus radiodurans appeared to be the most and Geobacillus stearothermophilus the least susceptible.

TL;DR: The acid milieu is the main cause of the microbicidal effect, but the possibility of still unidentified additional compound remains open.

TL;DR: In this paper, the activation of water was performed in atmosphere of various surrounding gases (air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and argon), and it was concluded that the longlasting biological effect of PAW is mediated by hydrogen peroxide in acid milieu only, whereas other possible active components decompose rapidly.

TL;DR: The ability of DC discharges to inactivate infectious prions was studied and the formation of insoluble and non-infective high molecular weight complexes is suggested as a possible mechanism of prion inactivation.