作者:
Sara RamosPedro Humberto CastroVera HomemLúcia SantosLEPABE - Laboratory for Process Engineering
Environment Biotechnology and Energy Faculty of Engineering University of Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias 4200-465 Porto Portugal. CIBIO
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos InBIO Laboratório Associado Campus de Vairão Universidade do Porto 4485-661 Vairão Portugal BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics
Biodiversity and Land Planning CIBIO Campus de Vairão 4485-661 Vairão Portugal. LEPABE - Laboratory for Process Engineering
Environment Biotechnology and Energy Faculty of Engineering University of Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias 4200-465 Porto Portugal. Electronic address: vhomem@fe.up.pt.
Although graphene-based materials continuously expand their range of industrial and biomedical applications, understanding their long-term fate in the organisms and environment is still in its infancy. Herein we exami...
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Water is one of the main sources of human pathogenic microorganisms in developing countries. Therefore, new low-cost water treatment technologies are required to prevent public health problems. The main goal of this w...
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Water is one of the main sources of human pathogenic microorganisms in developing countries. Therefore, new low-cost water treatment technologies are required to prevent public health problems. The main goal of this work was to develop a water purification technology using magnetic nanoparticles, to be applied in a water outlet point where the contact time between the two phases is minimal. For that, six different nanomaterials were synthesised based on iron oxide (FeO): FeO, mixed oxides of Fe with Mn, Co or Cu, a composite of FeO with activated carbon, and FeO subsequently coated with carbon by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). Different techniques were used to characterise these nanomaterials and their ability to remove E. coli (a Gram-negative bacteria) and also S. aureus (a Gram-positive bacteria) cells from a suspension was assessed. CuFeO, FeO, MnFeO and FeO/AC composite MNPs showed high removal efficiencies of Escherichia coli (Gram-negative). For the nanoparticles with higher removal efficiencies in the first tests (FeO and CuFeO), 50 mg mL−1 was the optimal concentration of particles and 1 min of contact time it was enough to obtain high removal efficiencies. The removal efficiency of S. aureus was higher than that of E. coli when FeO particles were used. In contrast, the removal efficiency of E. coli was higher than that of S. aureus for CuFeO particles. For both particles, the removal efficiency of microorganisms for the well water sample was lower when compared with the bacteria suspensions, being 64.1 % for FeO and 91.8 % for CuFeO. The reuse tests showed that these particles could be re-used several times without losing efficiency in bacteria removal. The MNPs used are simple and low-cost and show promising results for the elimination of both types of bacteria (gram-positive and gram-negative) demonstrating that this technology is a promising alternative to the conventionally used processes showing an easy, efficient, and inexpensive method
Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic microorganism that causes listeriosis, an infection that usually occurs after consumption of contaminated food and is considered particularly dangerous due to its ability to grow...
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Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic microorganism that causes listeriosis, an infection that usually occurs after consumption of contaminated food and is considered particularly dangerous due to its ability to grow and multiply under adverse conditions. In recent years, there has been an increase in the consumption of unprocessed products, such as raw milk and dairy products, by people of all ages, including those with compromised immune systems, which could lead to an increase in foodborne illness. Ruminants play a very important role in the persistence and transmission of L. monocytogenes through a continuous oral-faecal cycle. Therefore, farms are considered a reservoir of this microorganism and are involved in the transmission from animals to humans. In this study, samples of faeces, milk, water, silage, feed and teat cups swabs were collected from 8 farms to assess the distribution of the pathogen in the farm environment. Milk samples were also collected from 100 dairy farms to assess the risk associated with the consumption of raw milk. Detection was performed by real-time PCR, while preparation, enrichment and confirmation were performed according to ISO 11290–1, (2017). The prevalence in water was 8.3%, in faeces 12.5% and in feed 12.0%, while in the other samples the microorganism was not detected. It was also observed that this microorganism was more abundant in spring months. The eight isolates were serotyped by real-time PCR and the most frequent serogroup was IVb with 5 isolates (2 of which were IVb-v1) and the remaining 3 were IIb. Two of the clonal complexes (CCs) identified were shared by two isolates (CC 213 and CC 217), the remaining CCs identified (CC 392, CC 554, CC 489, CC 224 and CC 183) were not identified in more than one isolate. This study contributed to a better understanding of the ecology of L. monocytogenes in dairy farms, showing that most of the clones found in food were not present in this environment and that genes coding for dis
Advanced oxidation processes, such as the Fenton's reagent, are powerful methods for decontamination of different environments from recalcitrant organics. In this work, the degradation of paraquat (PQ) pesticide w...
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