In cotton textile finishing, antibacterial agents have been chemically bended with a flame-retardant polymer for the topical control of specific bacteria such as S. epidermidis and S. aureus. Such agents might have esthetic and/or therapeutic functions. The hydrazide of 10-undecenoic acid imparted antibacterial properties to cotton when it was incorporated in the THPOH-NH2 flame-retardant finish.
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