Selected organisms with public health significance were placed in a reaction chamber for treatment by ozonation, by ozonation and sonication, by sonication, or by sonication during oxygenation. Vesicular stomatitis virus, encephalomyocarditis virus, GDVII virus, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Salmonella typhimurium, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae, and Shigel...

The rate of Cryptosporidium parvum inactivation decreased with decreasing temperature (1-20 degrees C) for ozone and for monochloramine applied alone as well as after pre-treatment with ozone. Synergy was observed at all temperatures studied for the ozone/monochloramine sequential disinfection scheme. The synergistic effect was found to increase with decreasing temperature. The inactivation rat...

Saplings of ozone-sensitive and ozone-tolerant birch (Betula pendula Roth.), clones B and C, respectively, were exposed to ozone concentrations that were 1.7-fold higher than ambient for one growing season under open-field conditions. Ambient air was used as the control treatment. In the ozone-sensitive clone B, there was an initial stimulation of leaf area growth in response to the ozone treat...

Ozone (O3) acts as a protective layer in the environment from harmful UV rays. Over 100 years, ozone has been used in the medicine. Due to its unique property, noninvasive nature and wide spectrum of action, it has been used in dentistry also. Ozone has been used in treatment of alveolitis, osteoradionecrosis of jaw, bacterial and viral infections, implantology. It also inhibits plaque formatio...

We evaluated the therapeutic outcome of CT-guided ozone treatment for cervical disc herniation. All 86 patients with cervical spondylosis including myelopathy (37 cases), radiculopathy (30 cases), and sympathetic type (19 cases) were treated with ozone injection under CT guidance. The puncture route was anterolateral from the neck to the disk. A total of 2-7 ml of ozone at a concentration of 60...

Magalhaes et al reported on randomized controlled trials of ozone therapy as a treatment for low back pain secondary to herniated intervertebral discs (HID) (1). We have read their article with interest and want to add important concerns. Ozone therapy has become an alternative treatment for low back pain secondary to a herniated disc. Although the exact mechanism of action of medical ozone is ...

BACKGROUND Pretreatment of lignocellulose for biochemical conversion commonly results in formation of by-products that inhibit microorganisms and cellulolytic enzymes. To make bioconversion processes more efficient, inhibition problems can be alleviated through conditioning. Ozone is currently commercially employed in pulp and paper production for bleaching, as it offers the desirable capabilit...

BACKGROUND/AIM To investigate the effect of ozone and/or taurine treatment comparatively on testicular damage due to ischemia/ reperfusion (I/R) injury in an experimental torsion model in rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Adult Wistar rats with and without torsion/detorsion were used. In order to monitor the effect of ozone and/or taurine treatment on testicular damage due to I/R injury, following ...

Ozone induces rapid activation of SIPK, a mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in tobacco. Through transgenic manipulation it has previously been shown that overexpression of SIPK leads to enhanced ozone-induced lesion formation with concomitant accumulation of ROS. In spite of this hypersensitive phenotype, the effect of this altered SIPK expression on the levels of various hormones that re...