PMOC DISINFECTANT Flashcards
Application to living tissue for preventing infection
Antisepsis
Chemical or physical treatment that destroys most vegetative microbes or viruses, but nut spores, in or on inanimate surface
Disinfection
Destruction or marked reduction in the number of activity
of microorganisms
Decontamination
Reduction of microbial load on an inanimate surface to a level considered acceptable for public health purposes
Sanitation
Kills nonsporulating microorganisms by hot water or steam at 65-100°C
Pasteurization
Kill or remove all types of microorganisms, including spores, and usually including viruses with an acceptably low probability of survival
Sterilization
introduced antiseptic principles
Joseph Lister
He intoduced magic bullets, selective toxicity, Compound 606 (Salvarsan)
Paul Ehrlich
Most successful anti-infective agents
Mercury, Arsenic, Antimony
Sleeping sickness treatment
Atoxyl (Sodium Arsanilate and Arsphenamine)
Anti-Infective Agents classification
• Chemical types of the compound
• Biological properties
• Therapeutic indication
Alcohol names
• Ethyl alcohol
• Rectified spirit
• Wine spirit
• Grain alcohol
• Spiritus vini
rectificatus
Inhibit aldehyde dehydrogenase
Disulfiram
Inhibit alcohol dehydrogenase
Fomepizole
Approximately 95% ethanol by volume
Commercial Ethanol
Unfit for use in intoxicating beverages
Denatured Alcohol
With wood alcohol and benzene and is unsuitable for internal/external use
Completely denatured alcohol