[Comparative in vitro activity of chlorine and bromine on the cysts of free-living amoebae].

Authors :: Perrine D
Barbier D
Georges P
Source :: Comptes rendus des seances de la Societe de biologie et de ses filiales [C R Seances Soc Biol Fil] 1980; Vol. 174 (3), pp. 297-303.
Publication Year :: 1980
Abstract: A continuous flow type apparatus is used for investigation of the chlorine and bromide activity in vitro on the cysts of two free-living amoeba strains : Naegleria gruberi and Acanthamoeba polyphaga. The Naegleria cysts are sensitive more to chlorine than to bromine ; those of Acanthamoeba are perfectly resistant to these disinfectants in the limit of the available concentrations in swimming-pools. The sensibility to these disinfectants stays the same at 25 degrees C and 35 degrees C.

Subjects :: Animals
Species Specificity
Temperature
Time Factors
Amoeba drug effects
Bromine pharmacology
Chlorine pharmacology
Disinfectants pharmacology

Language :: French
ISSN :: 0037-9026
Volume :: 174
Issue :: 3
Database :: MEDLINE
Journal :: Comptes rendus des seances de la Societe de biologie et de ses filiales
Publication Type :: Academic Journal
Accession number :: 6448673

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