Abstract
Influenza pandemic is one of the biggest threats to not only human being but also other living beings, such as birds and cows. Air cleaners using plasma have been commercialized and expec ted to prevent infection of virus, although their effect has not been verified yet. Plasma has been proven to be capable of sterilizing pathogenic bacteria with low temperature, low cost and safely, but the effect of plasma on virus inactivation has not been known yet because the authorized verification protcol for plasma inactivation method has not been established. At present, a method to transmit the virus to cells is used as an inspection method. To apply this inspection method to the verification protocol, it is necessary to examine the influence of the plasma on cell viability.In this study, we focused on how the chemical species generated by a plasma flow have effects on viability of MDCK cells, which will be used as a host cell.
