Alcohol as a Disinfectant for Aseptic Surgery of Rodents: Crossing the Thin Blue Line?

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 10-12

  Huerkamp, Michael J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ALCOHOL; DISINFECTANT AGENT; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISINFECTION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; RAT; REVIEW; RODENT; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

2-PROPANOL; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; ETHANOL; MICE; RATS; RODENTIA; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0036370881     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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