Biocidal activity of formaldehyde and nonformaldehyde biocides toward Mycobacterium immunogenum and Pseudomonas fluorescens in pure and mixed suspensions in synthetic metalworking fluid and saline

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 542-546

  Selvaraju, Suresh B ^a   Khan, Izhar U H ^a   Yadav, Jagjit S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; FORMALDEHYDE; IMPURITIES; PHENOLS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

METALWORKING FLUIDS (MWF); MYCOBACTERIUM IMMUNOGENUM; SALINE;

BIOCIDES;

BIOCIDE; DICHLOROPHEN; FORMALDEHYDE; ISOTHIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; ISOTHIAZOLONE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIQUID; METAL INDUSTRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM IMMUNOGENUM; NONHUMAN; PROTECTION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SUSPENSION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; BENZYL COMPOUNDS; DISINFECTANTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL OILS; METALLURGY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; THIAZOLES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM IMMUNOGENUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 12244269722     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.1.542-546.2005     Document Type: Article

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