chapter 13: openstax microbiology | Questions and Answers with complete solution

Formites - any non-living object that can be contaminated by microbes. Autoclave - use moist heat, high pressure steam to serialize. Sterilization - removal of ALL microbes. - lab uses autoclaves to sterilize tubes and plates. Asepsis - treatments that decrease microbe numbers on LIVING TISSUES. Aseptic technique - any procedure that minimizes contamination to a patient. - example: using sterile equipment and sterilizing or disposing of contaminated equipment properly. Antiseptic(s) - chemicals that decrease microbe numbers. Commercial sterilization - kills disease causing microbes, but not microbes that grow at high temperatures. does commercial sterilization truly sterilize? - no, does not kill microbes that grow at high temperatures. What is commercial sterilization trying to eliminate and for what reason? - intended to kill clostridium botulinum endospores to prevent botulism poisoning. Which requires longer exposure to formites, disinfection or sanitization? - disinfection does disinfecting something achieve sterilization? - no, does not destroy endospores