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Ch 11
Microbial Control
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Microbiology
Post-Graduate
11/15/2009

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Decontamination
Definition
the destruction, removal, or reduction in microbes
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Antiseptsis
Definition
Father is Joseph Lister. disinfecants applied drectly to exposed body surfaces
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disinfection
Definition
a process to destroy vegetaive pathogens, not endospores: inanimate objects
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Sanitation
Definition
any cleansing technique that mechanically removes microbes
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Bacteriostatic
Definition
number of bacteria do not grow as much
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Bacteriscidal
Definition
destroys bacteria
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Sterilization
Definition
a process that destroys all viable microbes, including viruses and endospores; microbicidal
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Spore stage
Definition
Endospore. a small, dormant, resitnat derivative of a bacterial cell that germinates under favorable growth conditons into a vegetative cell.
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