Inactivation of mycobacteria by disinfectants with a tuberculocidal label;Inactivación de micobacterias con desinfectantes registrados como tuberculicidas

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 319-321

  Bello, Teresita ^a   Rivera Olivero, Ismar A ^a   De Waard, Jacobus H ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^b Hospital Vargas de Caracas   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Disinfectants; Mycobacteria; Mycobactericidal; Tuberculocidal

Indexed keywords

BROMINE DERIVATIVE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; GLUTARALDEHYDE; PHTHALALDEHYDE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; UREA DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN;

EID: 33745511244     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13089667     Document Type: Article

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