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What microbe is dettol?

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From the experiment that I have conduct, these are the bacteria that Dettol effective against: Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae .

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Dettol is a disinfectant, not a microbe.

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