Microbicidal power of alpha radiation in sterilizing germinating Bacillus anthracis spores.

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Published in Antimicrob Agents Chemother on December 30, 2013

Authors

Johanna Rivera1, Alfred Morgenstern, Frank Bruchertseifer, John F Kearney, Charles L Turnbough, Ekaterina Dadachova, Arturo Casadevall

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.

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