Controlling Microbial Growth
This text discusses the principles of controlling microbial growth, laboratory biological safety levels, sterilization, other methods of control, and measuring microbial control.
Topics
- antimicrobial
- antiseptics
- asepsis
- aseptic technique
- bactericide
- bacteriostatic
- biocontainment
- biological safety level
- bleach
- botulism
- BSL
- BSL-1
- BSL-2
- BSL-3
- BSL-4
- BSLs
- Clostridium botulinum
- critical item
- decimal reduction time
- degerm
- disinfectant
- disinfection
- D-value
- endospore
- fungicide
- fungistatic
- HEPA filter
- microbial death curve
- noncritical item
- sanitization
- semicritical item
- sterilant
- sterile field
- sterilization
- viricide