What category of disinfectant is dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride?

This is the main ingredient in many lysol products and I am doing a project on it but can't for the life of me find out what it actually does to kill the bacteria. I Wikipediaed disinfectants and think it might be a quaternary ammonium compound. I'd really like to know for sure though. Any help with this or sources with more about the compound would be appreciated!

?2012-05-01T17:09:49Z

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The compound is a nitrogenous cationic surface-acting agent belonging to the quaternary ammonium group. It can act as a biocide or disinfectant

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