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What organisms are iodine effective against?

April 26, 2017effective Iodine organisms

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What organisms are iodine effective against?

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Iodine, in the concentration released by Potable Aqua, has been found to kill the following organisms: • Escherichia coli • Vibrio cholerae • Salmonella typhosa • Salmonella typhimurium • Salmonella paratyphi • Shigella dysenteriae • Shigella flexneri • Shigella sonnei • Aerobacter aerogenes • Klebsiella terrigena • Streptococcus faecalis • Leptospira icterohaemmorrhagiae • Infectious hepatitis • Poliomyelitis • Entamoeba histolytica (amobic dysentery) • Giardia lamblia (Giardiasis) • Schistosome cercariae (aka Bilharzia)