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Public Health

 

Sterilization/Disinfection

·        Chapter 13

·        Definition—table 13.1

·        Sterilization—complete elimination of all living organisms

·        Disinfection—killing microbes in any situation in which pathogens would be killed; render an object not allowing to cause disease; non-living materials

·        Antiseptic—living objects

·        Sanitizer—used on food utensils

·        Bacteriostatic

·        Viricide

·        Bactericide

·        Germicide

·        Sporocide

·        -cidal—means killing

·        -static—stopping the multiplication

·        table 13.3 and 13.5—chemical agents that have the ability to accomplish disinfection and physical factors of eliminating microbes

·        phenol—Lister

·        autoclaving—physical process for sterilization