The need for safer and better microbicides for infection control

Disinfection and Decontamination: Principles, Applications and Related Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 41-58

  Sattar, Syed A ^a   Springthorpe, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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