A coating device for coating a metal strip in a metal melt includes a shaft that is rotatable in the metal melt for guiding the metal strip, and a slide bearing for supporting the shaft. The invention also relates to the use of this medium for isolating and identifying cholerae-group Vibrio and Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Since the wireless communication device operated as an active slave can stop its data transmissionreception during a communication standby period, i. Another aspect of the present invention provides for the use of such nucleoside compounds in the manufacture of a medicament for the inhibition of orthopoxvirus replication andor for the treatment of orthopoxvirus infection.