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Antiseptics(杀菌剂) have saved countless lives, but they are most effective when the bacteria they are attacking are individual cel
Antiseptics(杀菌剂) have saved countless lives, but they are most effective when the bacteria they are attacking are individual cel
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2013-06-02
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Antiseptics(杀菌剂) have saved countless lives, but they are most effective when the bacteria they are attacking are individual cells in suspension. Once bacteria have attached themselves to solid surfaces and formed films, they are far harder to eradicate with standard disinfectants. Bacterial pollution of medical devices is a particular problem, as those devices are then used on people whose immune systems may be in less than best condition. Surgical instruments may be treated with ultraviolet light, but that is not appropriate for everything. The result is that infections arising from bacteria attached to surfaces in clinics and hospitals are reckoned to cause up to 1.4m deaths per year.
In order to develop a better method of disinfection, a team led by David Whitten of the University of New Mexico and Kirk Schanze of the University of Florida set out to design the equivalent of a mousetrap for bacteria. The device they came up with is an empty capsule five microns across. It is made of alternating layers of two polymers’(聚合体) ,one of which is positively charged, and the other negatively so. These opposite charges serve to hold the capsule together.
The polymers in question also absorb light in a way that is likely to transfer the absorbed energy to nearby oxygen molecules (氧分子) to create what is known as singlet oxygen, a particularly reactive form of the element that would kill any bacteria inside the capsule.
To test this idea, the two researchers ran a series of experiments in which they exposed their newly built microcapsules to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a fatal bacterium commonly, found in hospitals, and also to Cobetia marina, a bacterium that frequently adheres to ships and marine equipment, causing dirt. They found that in both cases the microcapsules attracted and captured bacteria that were nearby. After one hour of exposure to light, they report in a forthcoming issue of Applied Materials & Interfaces, the capsules killed more than 95% of the bacteria used in the study.
What kills the bacteria is clear: it is the singlet oxygen. What is attracting them into the microcapsules, though, is not well understood. The researchers infer that the positive electric charge may have the function of attracting bacteria, since many bacteria are negatively charged and would thus be attracted to the polymer in question. Alternatively, because both bacteria and polymers are repelled by water they may be pushed together by this joint repulsion. However it works, the result is what Dr. Whitten describes as a micro-sized Roach Motel ("Bacteria check in, but they don’t check out"). If the idea can be scaled up, it may prove a useful weapon in the fight against hospital-caused infection and marine-dirt alike.
What is the main idea of this passage?
选项
A、Dr. Whitten and Dr. Schanze’s researching experiments on disinfection.
B、The possible way of eradicating hospital-caused infection and marine-dirt alike.
C、The history and development of antiseptics.
D、The process and principle of killing bacteria.
答案
B
解析
主旨题。本文首先提到了医疗器材细菌污染这一特殊问题,然后由定位句提出了研究者的目的:设计新的杀菌方法;通过对此杀菌实验和工作原理的介绍,作者指出它可能成为消灭医院和船舶细菌的有力武器,可见本文主要是讨论如何消除医院和水上设备细菌的一种新方法,B符合题意。
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