BACKGROUND Gyrodactylus salaris is a monogenean, which has collapsed tens of wild Atlantic salmon populations. One of the means of preventing the spread of the parasite is the disinfection of the fishing equipment, which is used in the rivers having susceptible salmon populations. Little is known about the dosage of disinfectants against G. salaris. There are not standards for the testing of di...

BACKGROUND Due to the growing number of outbreaks of infection in hospital nurseries, it becomes essential to set up a sanitation program that indicates that the appropriate chemical agent was chosen for application in the most effective way. METHOD For the purpose of evaluating the efficacy of a chemical agent, the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was reached by the classic method of s...

Endoscopes are used frequently for the diagnosis and therapy of medical disorders. For example, greater than 10000000 gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures are performed each year in the United States. Failure to employ appropriate cleaning and disinfection/sterilization of endoscopes has been responsible for multiple nosocomial outbreaks and serious, sometimes life-threatening, infections. Fl...

Abstract The sequential use of disinfection strategies for drinking water treatments has been shown to provide levels of inactivation greater than those corresponding to the single-step disinfection effects (Corona-Vasquez et al., 2002; EPA, 1999). Therefore, a disinfectants combined system could be applied both for the inactivation of microorganisms, resistant to traditional treatments, and al...

Issam Najm, Carol Tate, and Douglas Selby he upcoming Disinfectants/Disinfection ByProducts (D/DBP) Rule recognizes that a greater reduction in the total organic carbon (TOC) concentration of a natural water supply may appreciably reduce the concentrations of known and unknown DBPs formed during chlorination. Thus, the D/DBP Rule requires that conventional surface water treatment plants use enh...

Introduction and Objectives: Oral hygiene is performed through mechanical brushing use of dental floss. In contact with the mouth, toothbrush becomes contaminated. The ways they are stored, washed, dried can also influence to contamination. This study evaluated effectiveness different chemical disinfectants in disinfecting used toothbrushes. Materials Methods: 30 toothbrushes, from individuals,...

The objective of this manuscript was to assess the toxicity formation on biological treated wastewater from a municipal wastewater treatment plant, after a chlorination-dechlorination disinfection process. Water was monitored by means of physicochemical and ecotoxicological parameters, with the use of Vibrio fischeri bioassay. Since a dechlorination process removed residual chlorine, the positi...

Disinfection for drinking water reduces the risk of pathogenic infection but may pose chemical threat to human health due to disinfection residues and their by-products (DBPs) when the organic and inorganic precursors are present in water. More than 250 DBPs have been identified, but the behavioural profile of only approximately 20 DBPs are adequately known. In the last 2 decades, many modellin...

Because methyl bromide (CH3Br) is a widely used agricultural fumigant for soil disinfection, it is important to know the chemical behavior and fate of CH3Br as a result of its use for soil treatment. A solid-state 13C NMR study of 13CH3Br-treated soil and soil-component samples shows that methylation of soil organic matter may be the major pathway for degradation of CH3Br in soils. Adsorption o...

Complete eradication of microbial biofilms and elimination of the smear layer are the key factors during endodontic treatment. Various chemical irrigants have been proposed in the literature for the same. The major setback with these chemical irrigants is that they are not bio-friendly to the dental and peri-radicular tissues. In the recent years, research to use natural products for root canal...