Sunday, July 27, 2008

Medical Disinfectants

by Ross Fraser

The dictionary definition of a disinfectant is an antimicrobial agent which kills or inactivates dangerous/harmful micro-organisms. Disinfectants can sometimes be mixed up with sanitisers which are substances that reduce the number of microorganisms to a safe level but do not completely destroy all of them. The main physiological difference between a disinfectant and a sanitiser is that at a specified dilution a disinfectant must be able to kill more micro-organisms than that of a sanitiser.

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