Biocides: Modes of action and mechanisms of resistance

Disinfection and Decontamination: Principles, Applications and Related Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 87-124

  McDonnell, Gerald ^a  

^a STERIS Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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