Borax

Contains sodium tetraborate (borax).

A weak base, with weak bacteriostatic action like boric acid. By the plate method, a medium containing 10% borax inhibits Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus anthracis, Flexner's dysentery bacillus, Shigella dysentery bacillus, typhoid bacillus, paratyphoid bacillus, Proteus, as well as staphylococci and Candida albicans; by the disk method borax also inhibits diphtheria bacillus, Brucella abortus, Diplococcus pneumoniae, meningococcus, and hemolytic streptococcus, etc.

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