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Colloidal Particles As Antimicrobial Carrier Systems, Dustin W. Carnahan
Colloidal Particles As Antimicrobial Carrier Systems, Dustin W. Carnahan
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
The objective of this thesis is to develop a method by which antimicrobials are delivered into a food product as a concentrated dose to the specific area in which the microorganism is growing without interference from the food matrix. More specifically, we plan to achieve this by delivering the antimicrobials nisin and lysozyme attached to nanoparticles and emulsion droplets. We hypothesize that (a) the attachment to a delivery vessel may increase the local concentration of the antimicrobial in the vicinity of the bacterial pathogens and (b) that the size and charge of the nanoparticle following attachment of the antimicrobials will …