Review of Disinfection and Sterilization – Back to the Basics

In-depth knowledge of disinfection and sterilization is a key component of infection control. Sterilization completely removes a spore, whereas disinfection cannot. Disinfectants are classified as oxidants and non-oxidants. The decision regarding which method to apply is based on Spaulding's cl...

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Autor principal: Yoo, Jin-Hong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2018
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6031597/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29968977
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2018.50.2.101
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spelling pubmed-60315972018-07-07 Review of Disinfection and Sterilization – Back to the Basics Yoo, Jin-Hong Infect Chemother Review Article In-depth knowledge of disinfection and sterilization is a key component of infection control. Sterilization completely removes a spore, whereas disinfection cannot. Disinfectants are classified as oxidants and non-oxidants. The decision regarding which method to apply is based on Spaulding's classification. In this article, disinfection and sterilization are thoroughly reviewed, and extensive information from basic to practical points is discussed. The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2018-06 2018-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6031597/ /pubmed/29968977 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2018.50.2.101 Text en Copyright © 2018 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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