• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.466-469
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• 1995

The effect of lithium-ascorbate derivatives on viruses was investigated using a wide variety of bacterial viruses(phage). Lithium-ascorbate derivatives exerted an inactivating effect on all phages examined. Lithium-ascorbate derivatives have antiviral effects. The antiviral effect of lithium 2-o-octadecyl ascorbate was stronger than that of lithium ascorbate. Even at 10∼20 times lower concentration, the lithium 2-o-octadecyl ascorbate showed very much similar phage inactivating effect to that of ascorbate and lithium ascorbate.