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The Significance of the Variation in Shape of Time-Survivor Curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

E. R. Withell
E. R. Withell
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From the Department of Pharmacy and Biology, Central Technical College, Birmingham,
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The mean time-survivor curves of bacteria immersed in two phenolic disinfectants show the same variation of type as the individual curves, that is, (a) an exponential rate, (b) a lag phase followed by an exponential rate. The significance of all these curves and of others is discussed in the next part of the paper.

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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 1942 , pp. 124 - 183
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1942

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