At 05:44 PM 2/16/2010, you wrote:
Sol -- maybe I mis-read this, but I understood it to say that CS does not harm the friendly bacteria -- and gives the reason (because CS decomposes enzymes required by anaerobic bacteria, which are the unfriendly bacteria). Did I get this wrong?
In my opinion, anerobic bacteria are not universally the "unfriendly" bacteria nor are aerobic bacteria the "friendly bacteria" as I have read that pathogens are found in both groups of bacteria. Just as not all gram negative bacteria are pathogens, nor are all gram postiive ones "friendly". I may be misnaiming these groups...... Silver so far as I have read kills ALL bacteria, period, no matter their type or species, though some are harder to kill than others.
I have to date read nothing I consider credible that has changed my belief.
sol