Sterilizer effectiveness depends on its ability to shower the microorganism with enough UV light. Different sizes and types need different amounts of radiation to kill them. These are as follows: Organism Killing Dose of UV light (Microwatt seconds per square centimeter) Viruses: 15,000; Bacteria: 15,000 – 30,000; Algae: 22,000 – 30,000As an innovative non-antibiotic approach, antimicrobial blue light (aBL) in the spectrum of 400–470 nm has demonstrated its intrinsic antimicrobial properties resulting from the presence of endogenous photosensitizing chromophores in pathogenic microbes.
What Is UV Light? We have been working in the visible light range from 405-470nm that kills a wide variety of bacteria including MRSA, Staph, Strep, Cdiff and more. See below (Visible Light). This is light that gets to earth and we have lights that focus on the 405-470nm range to kill bacteria. We are now getting into the UV range.
The bacteria P. aeruginosa is a fluorescent, or light-producing bacteria, that has many features which distinguish it from other kinds of bacteria. It is also able to withstand many disinfectants
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