The reactivity of capsular extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) to chlorine and monochloramine was assessed and compared in this study. The impact of capsular EPS on Gram-negative bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa inactivation mechanisms was investigated both qualitatively and quantitatively using a combination of batch experiments, viability tests with LIVE/DEAD staining, and Fourier transfo...

The literature on the prophylactic use in surgery of disinfectants, antibiotics and the chemotherapeutic agents is reviewed. It is concluded that there is little place for the routine use of antibiotics or chemotherapeutic agents except in a very few conditions. Disinfectants do have a part to play in skin sterilization and in the reduction of postoperative wound infection. However, none of the...

BACKGROUND The present study was done to evaluate the dimensional stability and surface quality of Type IV gypsum casts retrieved from disinfected elastomeric impression materials. MATERIALS AND METHODS In an in vitro study contaminated impression material with known bacterial species was disinfected with disinfectants followed by culturing the swab sample to assess reduction in level of bact...

aims: the internal unit and icu of hospitals are a suitable environment for growing of bacteria such as staphylococcus epidermidis, pseudomonas and acinetobacters. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of using disinfectants on bacterial remove in isfahan city, iran, hospitals. instrument & methods: this descriptive study was performed in isfahan city, iran, hospitals in 2015. 200 ...

Sir,?I should like to hear the opinion of some of your readers about the value of disinfectants. Are they any good at all, or might we not just as well pour our money down the drain? Of course, I think that steam disinfection is very useful, but are any of the other ways of disinfecting any good to prevent the spread of disease, or are they only " eye-wash "? I enclose a stamped addressed envel...