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Why is mycobacterium often resistane to disinfectants?

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Why is mycobacterium often resistane to disinfectants?

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It is a gram-negative bacteria. This means its cell walls have a layer of lipopolysaccharides that gram-positive bacteria don’t have. The result of this is that their cell walls are much less permeable to things in general, and disinfectants are one of those things.

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