Chlorine dioxide (clo2) is an effective bacteri-cide (Rice and Gomez, 1986 and Maw, et al.,2008), sporicide (Maw, et al., 2008), algicide(Junil, et al., 1994, Junil, et al., 1997 andMaw, et al., 2008), planktoncide (Chauret, etal., 2001 and Maw, et al., 2008) and virucide(Alvarez and Brien, 1982, Chen andVaughn, 1990, Junil et al., 1997 and Maw, etal., 2008), due to it’s strong oxidation with theviral ribonucleic acid (Alvarez and Brien,1982 and Maw, et al., 2008) or the other or-ganic compounds of microorganism (Kim, etal., 1999).
hypochlorite disinfectant
** Should be "chlorine dioxide", not hypochlorite!