KR101815751B1 - Apparatus and method for microorganism measurement - Google Patents
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Abstract
The apparatus for measuring microorganisms according to the present invention comprises a collecting and dissolving unit for collecting and dissolving microorganisms in the air by a collecting solution containing a solubilizing agent and a light emitting agent and a collecting and dissolving unit for measuring the concentration of microorganisms by the light generated from the collected microorganisms And a light measuring unit. According to this configuration, the microbial concentration measurement can be performed at the same time without being divided at each step, so that the real-time microbial concentration measurement can be performed and the accuracy can be improved.
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The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for measuring microorganisms, and more particularly, to an apparatus and a method for measuring microorganisms that can accurately measure the concentration of microorganisms in real time.
Recently, a variety of pathogens such as avian influenza, swine influenza, and corn virus have been spreading worldwide and causing many casualties. These pathogens are present in extremely small amounts in the air, and studies on high sensitivity measurement techniques for microorganisms floating in the air such as pathogens have been continuously carried out.
Recently, a technique for measuring airborne floating microorganisms using ATP (adenosine triphosphate) bioluminescence has been widely used. This ATP microorganism concentration measurement technique includes a series of steps such as a collection step of floating microorganisms, a liquefaction step of captured microorganisms, a step of reacting a liquefied sample of a liquefied microorganism with a bioluminescent reagent, and a step of measuring the generated light I have.
However, a series of steps for measuring airborne microorganisms in the air are independently performed separately and manually performed by an operator. As a result, the waiting time for the measurement value of the desired suspended microorganism takes a long time, and the measurement accuracy depends on the skill of the operator. Therefore, in recent years, studies on the method of measuring floating microorganisms capable of rapid measurement while increasing the measurement accuracy have been continuously carried out.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for measuring microorganisms capable of continuously measuring microorganisms in real time as well as continuous automatic measurement.
In order to achieve the above object, a microorganism measuring apparatus according to the present invention comprises a collecting and dissolving unit for collecting and dissolving microorganisms in the air by a collecting solution containing a solubilizing agent and a light emitting agent, And a light measuring unit for measuring the concentration of the microorganism.
According to one aspect of the present invention, the collecting and dissolving unit includes a collecting unit for collecting the charged microorganisms into the collecting liquid, a charge collecting unit collecting the charged microorganisms by the corona discharge to charge the microorganisms in the air, And a supply part for supplying a collecting solution containing a light emitting agent.
According to one aspect, the light measurement unit includes a light measurement unit that measures light emitted from the microorganisms captured by the collection unit, and an operation unit that calculates light measured by the light measurement unit.
According to one aspect, the supply section includes a waste section for discarding the collection liquid discharged from the collection section.
According to one aspect of the present invention, the charging unit and the collecting unit are provided so as to face each other on a body portion provided on the path of the air so that the air is introduced and discharged, and the charging unit includes at least one electrode body .
According to one aspect, the at least one electrode body has a shape of at least one of an electrode line, an electrode, an electrode wire, an electrode pin, a nanofiber electrode, and a sawtooth electrode.
According to one aspect, the light measuring unit includes an optical sensor for measuring light intensity and a reflector for collecting the light.
According to one aspect, the solubilizer includes a lysis buffer for dissolving cells to extract adenosine triphosphate (ATP), wherein the luminescent agent is luciferin, luciferase, and magnesium (Mg 2 + ).
A method for measuring a microorganism according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of charging a microorganism in the air, collecting the charged microorganism with a trapping solution containing a solubilizer and a light emitting agent, dissolving and emitting the microorganism, Measuring light, and calculating the concentration of the microorganism with the measured light.
According to one aspect, in the charging step, a charge unit including at least one electrode body to which a positive electrode (+) or a negative electrode (-) is applied generates a corona discharge to charge the microorganisms in the air.
According to one aspect, in the collecting, dissolving, and luminescent steps, the microorganisms are trapped, dissolved, and emitted simultaneously.
According to one aspect, the light measuring step measures the light of the microorganism by an optical sensor for measuring the light intensity and a reflector for collecting the light.
According to one aspect, the calculating step includes visually or audibly notifying the concentration of the calculated microorganisms.
According to one aspect, the solubilizer includes a lysis buffer for dissolving cells to extract adenosine triphosphate (ATP), wherein the luminescent agent is luciferin, luciferase, and magnesium (Mg 2 + ).
According to the present invention having the above-described configuration, firstly, by collecting and simultaneously dissolving microorganisms in the air to emit light, the concentration of microorganisms can be measured in a short time.
Secondly, it is possible to measure the concentration of microorganisms in real time through the simultaneous capture, dissolution and luminescence of microorganisms in the air, thereby contributing to improvement of measurement accuracy due to improvement of real-time concentration measurement response speed.
Third, if the inflow of air is continuously performed, continuous and automatic microbial concentration measurement becomes possible.
Fourth, since the airborne microbial concentration measurement is not classified at each step, it is possible to improve the efficiency compared to the conventional manual measurement method.
1 is a block diagram schematically showing a microorganism measuring apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a view schematically showing an example of a microorganism measuring apparatus according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a graph showing that the luminous intensity measured by the microorganism measuring apparatus shown in FIG. 1 changes with concentration when staphylococci are generated in the air and the concentration is adjusted with time,
FIG. 4 is a flowchart schematically showing a method for measuring microorganisms according to an embodiment using the apparatus for measuring microorganisms shown in FIG. 1. FIG.
Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
1, the
The collecting and dissolving
The
For reference, in the present embodiment, the
The
On the other hand, the collecting liquid W supplied to and discharged from the
In addition, the luminescent agent includes a luminescent enzyme that reacts with adenosine triphosphate (ATP) extracted from cells dissolved by a solubilizer to generate light. In the present embodiment, will be described as the light-emitting agent comprises at least one of the luciferin (luciferin), luciferase (luciferase), and magnesium (Mg 2 +).
For reference, luciferin in the luminescent agent is activated by adenosine triphosphate (ATP) present in the cells of the dissolved microorganism (B) to be converted into active luciferin, and the active luciferin is oxidized by the action of luciferase, And converts the chemical energy into light energy to generate light.
As described above, since the charged microorganisms B are collected by the collecting liquid W of the
The
The supplying
The
The
The
The light measurement efficiency by the
3 (A), there is a delay in the measurement signal due to the longer time taken to collect the microorganisms floating in the air (A) and move to the optical measuring
That is, referring to the graph of FIG. 3, when the flow rate of the collecting liquid W is high, it is confirmed that the measurement sensitivity is lowered but the measurement reaction rate is faster. On the other hand, when the flow rate of the collection liquid W is low, it is confirmed that the measurement sensitivity is increased and the measurement reaction rate is slow. As described above, it can be confirmed that the concentration of the microorganisms (B) floating in the air (A) can be measured also by optical measurement of the microorganisms (B) captured in the collecting solution (W).
Although not shown in detail, the optical measuring
The calculating
A method of measuring the microbial concentration of the
First, as shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 4, the microorganisms B in the floating air A are charged (100). When the positive electrode (+) or the negative electrode (-) is applied to the
At this time, when the air A flows through the
The particles of the charged microorganism B are separated from the air A and are discharged toward the ground electrode (not shown) by an electric field formed between the charging
The captured microorganism (B) is lysed by the dissolving agent contained in the collecting solution (W) and the luminescent agent to emit light (200). That is, the charged microorganisms (B) are collected in the collecting solution (W) and melted to emit light (200). The
As described above, the concentration of the microorganism (B) in the air (A) is collected and dissolved simultaneously to emit light, so that the concentration of the microorganism (B) can be measured in real time in a short time. In addition, continuous charging and trapping can be performed in response to the inflow of the air (A), and the concentration of the microorganisms (B) can be automatically measured continuously.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments thereof, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the following claims. It can be understood that
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An optical measuring unit for measuring the concentration of the microorganisms with light generated from the collected and dissolved microorganisms;
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In the collecting and dissolving unit,
A charge unit for generating a corona discharge to charge the microorganisms in the air;
A collecting unit collecting the charged microorganisms with the collecting liquid; And
A supplying unit for supplying the collecting unit with the solubilizing agent and the light emitting agent;
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Wherein the charging unit and the collecting unit are disposed to face each other on a body part provided on the path of the air so that the air is introduced and discharged so that charging, collecting, and emitting light are simultaneously generated in one body part.
Wherein the light measuring unit comprises:
A light measuring unit for measuring light emitted from the microorganisms collected in the collecting unit; And
A calculator for calculating light measured by the light measuring unit;
And a microbial cell.
Wherein the supplying section includes a waste section for discarding the collecting liquid discharged from the collecting section.
Wherein the charge unit comprises at least one electrode body provided on the body portion.
Wherein the at least one electrode body has a shape of at least one of an electrode line, an electrode, an electrode wire, an electrode pin, a nanofiber electrode, and a sawtooth electrode.
Wherein the light measuring unit includes an optical sensor for measuring light intensity and a reflector for collecting the light.
The dissolving agent includes a lysis buffer for dissolving cells to extract adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
Wherein the luminescent agent comprises at least one of luciferin, luciferase, and magnesium (Mg < 2 + >).
Collecting the charged microorganisms as a collecting solution of a collecting part including a solubilizing agent and a light emitting agent to dissolve and emit light;
Measuring light emitted from the microorganism; And
Calculating the concentration of the microorganism with the measured light;
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Wherein the charging part and the collecting part are provided to face each other on a body part provided on the path of the air so that the air is introduced and discharged, so that charging, collecting, dissolving, and emitting light are simultaneously generated in one body part.
Wherein the charging step comprises charging the microorganisms in the air by generating a corona discharge in the charge unit including at least one electrode body to which a positive electrode (+) or a negative electrode (-) is applied.
Wherein the light measuring step measures the light of the microorganism by an optical sensor for measuring the light intensity and a reflector for collecting the light.
Wherein said calculating step comprises visually or audibly notifying the concentration of the calculated microorganisms.
The dissolving agent includes a lysis buffer for dissolving cells to extract adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
Wherein the luminescent agent comprises at least one of luciferin, luciferase, and magnesium (Mg < 2 + >).
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