Chlorine dioxide is a size-selective antimicrobial agent.

BACKGROUND / AIMS: ClO2, the so-called "ideal biocide", could also be applied as an antiseptic if it was understood why the solution killing microbes rapidly does not cause any harm to humans or to animals. Our aim was to find the source of that selectivity by studying its reaction-diffusi...

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Main Authors: Zoltán Noszticzius, Maria Wittmann, Kristóf Kály-Kullai, Zoltán Beregvári, István Kiss, László Rosivall, János Szegedi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3818415?pdf=render