How To Kill A Bacteria Rhodochrous?

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The bacteria Rhodoccus rhodochrous has specific growing specifications helping it flourish at it’s highest potential. Fermentation tanks house the bacteria to create an enclosed environment. They are given pure oxygen, proteins, and sugars inside of the tank. The bacteria feed off of these ingredients and continue to grow. Then, the bacteria is frozen to stabilize them. This prevents the bacteria from growing too much. A catalyst is added to create a signal for the enzymes to start working. Before the catalyst can be added, however, the bacterial cells must be killed. This does not affect the enzyme creation, which is how the VOCs are emitted. The bacteria cannot theoretically spread and harm anything in the environment outside of the laboratory when they are killed (Inman and LaTina 2014). …show more content…
Most of these strategies include directly applying a substance to the bat’s face or skin. These substances include all the research project discoveries currently underway. Not only is it inefficient to test hundreds of various methods, but it’s also inefficient to attempt to treat each individual bat at a time. Testing must concentrate on a single white-nose syndrome treatment method. Attempting to research numerous cure methods at the same time wastes valuable time and effort that could be spent focusing on a single method. Treatment inefficiency stems from trying to treat a single bat for white-nose syndrome when the fungus spreads so fast, it replaces itself much faster than the bat recovery

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