Biocide - ✔️✔️Blanket term for all antimicrobial agents
Sterilization - ✔️✔️The process by which all living cells, spores, or acellular entities are removed from an
object or environment
Disinfection - ✔️✔️The process of killing or removing disease-causing microorganisms
Disinfectants - ✔️✔️Chemical agents that accomplish disinfection
Sanitization - ✔️✔️The process of reducing the microbial population on an object or environment to levels
considered safe by public health authorities
Antiseptics - ✔️✔️Chemical agents applied to living tissue that prevents infection by killing or inhibiting
pathogen growth
Decimal reduction time - ✔️✔️The time required to kill 90% of microorganisms in a sample under some
specific conditions
Selective toxicity - ✔️✔️A chemical agent that kills or inhibits microbial growth but has no or little damage
to the infected host
Therapeutic index - ✔️✔️The ratio of the toxic dose to the therapeutic dose
Toxic dose - ✔️✔️The drug concentration at which the chemical agent becomes too toxic for the infected
host
Therapeutic dose - ✔️✔️The drug concentration required to effectively treat a bacterial infection
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