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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 106-113Publisher
KOREAN SOC MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.4014/jmb.2211.11027
Keywords
Ultraviolet-C; drinking water; Shigella flexneri; Listeria monocytogenes; flow cytometry; fluorescence microscopy
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Ensuring the supply of microbiological risk-free water is crucial for food safety and public hygiene. This study evaluated the disinfection efficiencies of UV-C irradiation on Shigella flexneri and Listeria monocytogenes in drinking water using a water purifier. The findings revealed that UV-C irradiation effectively disinfects microbial contaminants in drinking water and provided insights into the bacterial features and responses after UV-C irradiation.
The supply of microbiological risk-free water is essential to keep food safety and public hygiene. And removal, inactivation, and destruction of microorganisms in drinking water are key for ensuring safety in the food industry. Ultraviolet-C (UV-C) irradiation is an attractive method for efficient disinfection of water without generating toxicity and adversely affecting human health. In this study, the disinfection efficiencies of UV-C irradiation on Shigella flexneri (Gram negative) and Listeria monocytogenes (Gram positive) at various concentrations in drinking water were evaluated using a water purifier. Their morphological and physiological characteristics after UV-C irradiation were observed using fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry combined with live/dead staining. UV-C irradiation (254 nm wavelength, irradiation dose: 40 mJ/cm(2)) at a water flow velocity of 3.4 L/min showed disinfection ability on both bacteria up to 10(8) CFU/4 L. And flow cytometric analysis showed different physiological shift between S. flexneri and L. monocytogenes after UV-C irradiation, but no significant shift of morphology in both bacteria. In addition, each bacterium revealed different characteristics with time-course observation after UV-C irradiation: L. monocytogenes dramatically changed its physiological feature and seemed to reach maximum damage at 4 h and then recovered, whereas S. flexneri seemed to gradually die over time. This study revealed that UV-C irradiation of water purifiers is effective in disinfecting microbial contaminants in drinking water and provides basic information on bacterial features/responses after UV-C irradiation.
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