Phagocytes may also kill engulfed microbes by mechanisms not involving aerobic metabolism. These include the reduction of pH within the phagolysosomes by the action of acid hydrolases.
Also, there are a variety of enzymes within the neutrophil granules which aid destruction of microbes e.g.:
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