PMID- 36551399
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20221225
IS  - 2079-6382 (Print)
IS  - 2079-6382 (Electronic)
IS  - 2079-6382 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 12
DP  - 2022 Dec 2
TI  - An Initial Report of the Antimicrobial Activities of Volatiles Produced during 
      Rapid Volatilization of Oils.
LID - 10.3390/antibiotics11121742 [doi]
LID - 1742
AB  - Aerosols generated through volatilization and subsequent recondensation of oil 
      vapors have been used as obscurant (smoke) screens during military operations 
      since the early twentieth century. Specifically, a petroleum middle distillate 
      known as the fog oil (FO) has been used in US military battlefields to create 
      obscurant smoke screens. During a study on the feasibility of replacing 
      petroleum-derived FO with vegetable oil-derived esters such as methyl soyate 
      (MS), it was observed that that FO and MS aerosols and vapors did not exhibit 
      detectable mutagenic activity but were lethal to Ames strains bacteria even after 
      very short exposure periods. These results opened the potential use of 
      oil-derived vapors as antimicrobial agents. Subsequent studies showed that 
      optimal aerosol/vapor production conditions could further enhance disinfectant 
      efficiency. For this purpose, we examined the antimicrobial activities of mineral 
      oils and biogenic oil ester aerosols/vapors against a wide range of Gram-positive 
      and Gram-negative bacteria. The results of the study showed that the 
      aerosols/vapors obtained from mineral oil or vegetable oil ester under proper 
      conditions can serve as an excellent antibacterial disinfectant.
FAU - Ramamurthy, Sangeetha
AU  - Ramamurthy S
AD  - Department of Microbiology, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, 
      MO 65401, USA.
FAU - Kopel, Jonathan
AU  - Kopel J
AD  - School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 
      79430, USA.
FAU - Westenberg, David
AU  - Westenberg D
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3510-0311
AD  - Department of Microbiology, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, 
      MO 65401, USA.
FAU - Kapila, Shubhender
AU  - Kapila S
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 
      65401, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221202
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Antibiotics (Basel)
JT  - Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101637404
PMC - PMC9774546
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - antimicrobials
OT  - bacteria
OT  - disinfectants
OT  - fog oil
OT  - methyl soyate
OT  - vapors
OT  - viruses
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/12/24 06:00
MHDA- 2022/12/24 06:01
PMCR- 2022/12/02
CRDT- 2022/12/23 01:09
PHST- 2022/10/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/10/29 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/12/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/12/23 01:09 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/12/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/12/24 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/12/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - antibiotics11121742 [pii]
AID - antibiotics-11-01742 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/antibiotics11121742 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Antibiotics (Basel). 2022 Dec 2;11(12):1742. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics11121742.