That CS will kill both came out of research I had done at UT on CS effectiveness.
As far as switching between them see: http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C11/C11Links/www.sp.uconn.edu/~terry/229sp00/lectures/catabolism2.html When fertilized soils become flooded, oxygen is rapidly depleted, pseudomonads switch to anaerobic respiration and can use up soil nitrate, leaving field in unfertile state. http://www.sou.edu/biology/courses/bi214/lect6.htm Organisms that are capable of aerobic respiration generally grow more quickly than organisms that are solely fermentative. Some organisms are flexible; they carry out aerobic respiration when oxygen is available, and switch to fermentation or anaerobic respiration when it is not. http://textbookofbacteriology.net/nutgro.html Facultative anaerobes (or facultative aerobes) are organisms that can switch between aerobic and anaerobic types of metabolism. Under anaerobic conditions (no O2) they grow by fermentation or anaerobic respiration, but in the presence of O2 they switch to aerobic respiration. Group Aerobic Aaerobic O2 Effect Obligate Aerobe Growth No growth Required (utilized for aerobic respiration) Microaerophile Growth if level not too high No growth Required but at levels below 0.2 atm Obligate Anaerobe No growth Growth Toxic Facultative Anaerobe (Facultative Aerobe) Growth Growth Not required for growth but utilized when available Aerotolerant Anaerobe Growth Growth Not required and not utilized Marshall Garnet wrote: > Do you happen to have any reference articles on this Marshall? > > Thanks, > > Garnet > > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 12:44, Marshall Dudley wrote: > > CS works equally well on both anaerobic as well a aerobic microbes. Plus > > many of these microbes can swich between the two at will depending on the > > environment. > > > > Marshall > > > > Garnet wrote: > > > > > It is my understanding, which is not complete, that CS kills anaerobic > > > pathogenic organsims by interfering with the enzyme that controls > > > respiration for the cell. > > > > > > Because amoebas and other parasites go through a single stage cell it > > > may be assumed that CS will kill them by virtue of the fact that they > > > are single cells. However these cells use a different enzyme system than > > > anaerobes to incorporate and utilize oxygen. If the mechanism of action > > > of CS is to inactivate the enzyme responsible for anaerobic respiration > > > it follows that it would not work on a different enzyme system in an > > > aerobic organism. > > > > > > I do not know if CS kills amoebas or other parasties at the single cell > > > stage or not, but these are some of my thoughts on it. > > > > > > Garnet > > > > > > -- > > > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > > > > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > > > > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > > > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > > > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > > > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > > > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >
