Define the following: sterilization, disinfection, antiseptic, bactericide, fungicide, virucide, sporocide, and biocide.
How is "microbiological death" characterized?
What factors influence the action of antimicrobial agents?
What are the modes of action of antimicrobial agents?
Discuss and identify examples of moist and dry heat antimicrobial control.
Explain how time and temperature affect microbial death by heat treatment.
What is "thermal death time" and "thermal death point"?
What are methods of heat control of microbial growth?
Discuss the action and effectiveness of the following methods of microbial control: cold, dessication, radiation, sound waves, and filtration.
What are desirable qualities of a germicide?
What are the 3 levels of chemical decontamination?
What factors affect germicidal activity of chemicals?
For each of the following, describe an example, mode of action, and any limitations of their usage: halogens, phenol, chlorhexidine, alcohols, hydrogen peroxide, detergents, heavy metals, aldehydes, gaseous sterilants, dyes, acids, and alkalies.