Factors Affecting the Rapid Disappearance of Bacteria Placed on the Normal Skin

On a remarkable bacteriolytic element found in tissues and secretions

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The Bacteriology of Normal Skin; A New Quantitative Test Applied to a Study ofthe Bacterial Flora and the Disinfectant Action of Mechanical Cleansing

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The Mechanism of Self-Disinfection of the Human Skin and its Appendages

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E.A. Devenish, A. A. Miles · The Lancet · 1939 · 102 citations

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