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The Bactericidal Action of Pectin and Metal Pectinates

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The American Journal of Digestive Diseases

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  1. 1.

    Pectin does not possess bactericidal power.

  2. 2.

    Metal pectinates exert bactericidal action.

  3. 3.

    Silver pectinate has the greatest bactericidal action of any of the metal pectinates we have studied.

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  1. Department of Bacteriology and Public Health, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

    Lloyd Arnold

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Arnold, L. The Bactericidal Action of Pectin and Metal Pectinates. American Journal of Digestive Diseases 6, 104–105 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03007928

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