Differences in destruction of cysts of pathogenic and nonpathogenic Naegleria and Acanthamoeba by chlorine

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• Publication year

  1976

• Venue

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology

• Publication date

  1976-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1128/aem.31.2.294-297.1976PMID 999278PMCID PMC169762
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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