In vitro Antifungal Efficacy of Biguanides and Quaternary Ammonium Compounds against Cleanroom Fungal Isolates

@article{Vijayakumar2012InVA,
  title={In vitro Antifungal Efficacy of Biguanides and Quaternary Ammonium Compounds against Cleanroom Fungal Isolates},
  author={Rajendran Vijayakumar and Velusamy Venkatesa Kannan and Tim Sandle and Chockaiya Manoharan},
  journal={PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology},
  year={2012},
  volume={66},
  pages={236 - 242},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:40400887}
}
The present study establishes minimum cut-offs for specific fungal isolates that are problematic in cleanrooms against commonly used disinfectants (quaternary ammonium compounds and biguanides) to prevent fungal occurrence.
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