Evaluation of USR technology on the destruction of HPC organisms

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2127-2131

  Dehghani, Mohammad Hadi ^a   Jahed, Gh ^a   Vaezi, F ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acoustic cavitation; Heterotrophic Plate Count (HPC); Sonication; Ultrasonic reactor (USR)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33749991577     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2006.2127.2131     Document Type: Article

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