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A Fiser

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PubMed1990

[Smell perception in smokers].

The author studied the changes of olfactory function in smokers. He established the fact that the threshold of the perception of smell increases in smokers. By studying the subjective experience of the intensity of smell he established an appearance which he named olfactory recruitment, the increased growth of smelling sensitivity, which points out the changes, not only on the olfactive mucous membranes, but on the olfactive paths as well. The author concludes that smoking influences the decrease of the function of smell and emphasizes the necessity of advising the stopping of smoking in the treatment of all types of smelling disorders, as one of the important elements of treatment.

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PubMed1979

[Effectiveness of paraformaldehyde foam in continuous disinfection of poultry bedding and dried liquid waste of pigs].

In laboratory experiments 24-hour cultures of poultry strains E. coli, Staphylococcus, Pseudomonas on paper carriers without an agar coat and with it, after 6-hour exposure in dilutions from 10(-4) to 0, were devitalized by paraformaldehyde foam. The Bacillus strain was devitalized only after 24-hour exposure. After adding paraformaldehyde foam in an amount of 0.6% of the weight into litter under a multiplier flock of layers four months before expedition, and after adding paraformaldehyde foam in an amount of 5% and 10% of the weight into the litter for chick broilers, microbial contamination of the litter did not decrease in comparison with the control. 24-hour old cultures of tested microbial strains on carriers were not devitalized after 24-hour exposure in a mixture to litter and paraformaldehyde foam not even after adjusting the volume ratio of mixing to 1 : 9. The disinfecting effect on microbes growing in End's agar and in blood agar with crystal violet was manifested only after adding dried liquid manure of pigs with paraformaldehyde foam at a volume ratio of 50% to 50% after exposure times of 1, 3 and 6.0 weeks. Despite the excellent results obtained with paraformaldehyde foam in disinfecting test-microbes on carriers in laboratory experiments, practical application at a very low volume weight for continuous disinfection of poultry litter is technically unrealistic.

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PubMed1979

[Devitalization of Bordetella bronchiseptica in vitro using vapors of Persterile and triethyl glycol].

Using the method of bacterial carriers, the devitalizing effect was studied of Persteril and triethylene glycol vapours, acting in vitro, on a 24-hour culture of a mixture of 39 strains of Bordetella bronchiseptica, isolated from the nasal cavity of pigs which came from five stocks suffering from the clinical form atrophic rhinitis. After exposure of the carriers of Bordetella bronchiseptica to the action of spontaneously developing vapours o the mentioned chemicals, the devitalizing effect was determined by bacteriological examination. The vapours of the water solution of Persteril, containing 0.1% of peracetic acid, showed a 90.91 to 93.83% devitalizing effect after 48-hour exposure at room temperature. When the vapours of warmed concentrated triethylene glycol were used, a 98.57 to 100% devitalizingeff ect was obtained after a 72-hour exposure under the same temperature conditions. In experiements performed at a temperature of 37 degrees C, a 24-hour exposure sufficed for obtaining 91.67 to 100% devitalizing effectiveness. There is a discussion concerning the importance of the obtained results and the need for testing them experimentally by a methodically simple and cheap continual disinfection of the air and stable surfaces in premises for pig stocks affected by atrophic rhinitis.

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PubMed1978

[Microbial contamination of dust in minimum-morbidity housings for pig rearing].

The range of the microbial contamination of 1 g of dust in minimum-morbidity pig rearing houses is from 2.9 . 10(7) to 7.6 . 10(9) in the microbes growing on meat-peptone agar (MPA), from 4.6 . 10(7) to 4.6 . 10(8) in moulds growing on the Czapek-Dox agar, from 1.4 . 10(2) to 7.0 . 10(4) in the total number of microbes growing on End's agar, and from 3.1 . 10(2) to 5.7 . 10(3) in the typically lactose-positive microbes growing on End's agar. The numbers of microbes in 1 g of dust in the conventional pig houses are close to the numbers found in pig rearing houses with minimum morbidity. However, in the moulds on the Czapek-Dox agar, the range of the microbial contamination of dust in the minimum-morbidity pig houses was much higher. The highest level of the contamination of dust with microbes was found on all types of media from houses with continual operation. It was revealed by the control of the effectiveness of disinfection in the minimum-morbidity piglet rearing section, operated on the all-in all-out basis, that in a half of the cases studied the disinfection had low effectiveness. The total number of microbes per 1 sq. cm was lower than required on the basis of research published in literature, but the occurrence rate of positive smears with lactose-positive microbes after disinfection was higher in percentual expression.

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