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Iodine as an aerial disinfectant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

W. F. Raymond
W. F. Raymond
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From the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead, N. W. 3
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1. Iodine vapour at a readily tolerable concentration of 0·1 mg./cu.ft. of air gives a rapid kill of freshly sprayed salivary organisms at humidities above 50 %.

2. At the same concentration dry bacteria are not as readily killed, the killing rate only becoming appreciable above 70 % R.H.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 44 , Issue 5 , May 1946 , pp. 359 - 361
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

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