University of Wisconsin-Madison: Kenneth Todar's "The Control of Microbial Growth"
Read this page and the following two pages. These pages discuss general microbial growth techniques: sterilization and employing physical and chemical agents. In Unit 1, you learned about the history of antimicrobial techniques, including the independent observations of Semmelweis and Nightingale.
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