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The anoxic sensitization of bacterial spores by added H2O2 has been studied. Two mechanistic pathways for damage from H2O2 were found; one of these requires the presence of OH radicals. For this kind of damage, the relationship between H2O2 and OH appears to be that they are reactants. O-2 (and/or HO2), the product of such a reaction, is likely the agent which actually causes damage. These results with reagent H2O2 are compared with results of experiments in which H2O2 and OH are present as radiolytic products.
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David F. Ewing (1983) studied this question.
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